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Roland Penrose: The Friendly Surrealist by Antony Penrose 9780953238958
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Penrose' wrote Andre Breton `est Surrealiste dans l'amitie' and `The Friendly Surrealist' is an apt description for the man who more than any other nurtured friendships and connections which... -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Love Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063381865
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £12.20A remarkable compilation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s reflections on love and its transformative power—a stellar addition to Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.“I have also... -
Infighting in the UAW: The 1946 Election and the Ascendancy of Walter Reuther by Bill Goode 9780313289040
Booksplease Price: £61.63Usually the defeat of one union official by another would not occasion great interest by historians. The highly charged atmosphere after World War II and at the beginning of the cold war however led... -
The Monocle Book of Reportage by Tyler Brule
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.20The best photo assignments from the Monocle archive, published to mark the magazine's fifteenth anniversary. Back in 2007 the first issues of Monocle magazine hit newsstands and kiosks around the... -
'Shattered Nerves': Doctors, Patients, and Depression in Victorian England by Janet Oppenheim 9780195057812
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £32.20Janet Oppenheim's book explores an illness that figures in nearly every volume of Victorian autobiography, memoirs, diaries, letters, and more than a few novels. Variously described as shattered... -
The Other America by Martin Luther King, Dr. 9780063469044
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.30A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech “The American Dream,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At Lincoln University on June 6, 1961,... -
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Migration Records: A Guide for Family Historians by Roger Kershaw 9781905615407 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.05Over the past 400 years thousands of people have moved to settle in Britain, and thousands more left its shores for life overseas. This practical and accessible guide shows how to explore migration... -
Beyond Vietnam by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063351035
Booksplease Price: £16.14A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam,” part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.At New York City's Riverside Church in 1967,... -
The American Dream by Martin Luther King, Dr. 9780063469020
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.67A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech “The American Dream,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At Lincoln University on June 6, 1961,... -
The Polish Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Prisoner of History by Edward D. Wynot 9780739198841
Booksplease Price: £91.39The Polish Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Prisoner of History shows the adaptability of an Orthodox community whose members are a religious and ethnic minority in a... -
Mahjong by Julia F. Andrews 9780971939776
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.58Published on the occasion of the North American premiere of Mahjong, a landmark exhibition of contemporary Chinese art from the world-renowned collection of the Swiss businessman and diplomat Uli... -
Joseph Vallence Bevan: Georgia's First Official Historian by 9780820335315
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £25.58Published in 1964, this biography of Joseph Vallence Bevan tells the story of Georgia's first official historian. Born in Ireland, Bevan moved with his family to Georgia at a young age. He attended... -
Letter Love: 40 Postcards from San Francisco’s Special Collections Library of Typography & Graphic Design Letterform Archive Books 9781736863350
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50Typographic treats in the form of perforated pull-out postcards including works by design giants Saul Bass, Seymour Chwast and Takenobu Igarashi San Francisco museum Letterform Archive boasts a... -
Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets Morgane Come 9798989142392
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £36.40An immersive look inside 12 colorful alphabet albums used by 19th- and early 20th-century French sign painters Beginning in the 19th century, sign painters adorned the streets and storefronts of... -
Growing Up in Alphabet City: The Unexpected Letterform Art of Michael Doret Michael Doret 9781736863329
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £32.65A visual autobiography from the lettering legend behind iconic artwork for Kiss, Disney, the Knicks and many more In this vivid and humorous monograph-meets-memoir, Los Angeles-based lettering... -
I've Been to the Mountaintop by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063351042
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.On April 3, 1968, Dr... -
Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 by Diane V. Silverthorne 9781736863312
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £42.20A landmark of graphic modernism, the Vienna Secession's magazine is brought to life in a complete facsimile reprint with new essays and translations The brainchild of Koloman Moser, Alfred Roller,... -
I Have a Dream by Dr Martin Luther King
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr LibraryWith a New Foreword by Amanda GormanA beautiful collectible edition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legendary speech at the March on Washington, laid out... -
The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930 by Gennifer Weisenfeld 9781736863343
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £36.85A revelatory, beautifully produced compendium of the influential Japanese commercial design journal, with posters, billboards, shop window displays and more From 1928 to 1930, Tokyo publisher Ars... -
James Castle: Memory Palace by John Beardsley
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.99A fascinating new look at an extraordinary artist whose deafness led to an acute visual awareness and near photographic memory Self-taught artist James Castle (1899-1977) is primarily known for soot... -
Rice and Industrialisation in Asia by A.J.H. Latham 9781032124872
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book is about the introduction of modern power-driven rice milling to the main rice exporting countries of Burma (Myanmar), Siam (Thailand) and French Indo-China (Vietnam) from 1869. Rich in... -
Secession Style: Graphic Art from Vienna 1900: 2 Sets of 20 Postcards by Koloman Moser 9798991621250
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63An elegant postcard set highlighting the groundbreaking Vienna Secession design journal Die Flache In the first decade of the 20th century, Vienna's leading modernists and their students developed... -
Judging the State: Courts and Constitutional Politics in Pakistan by Paula R. Newberg 9780521894401
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £50.72The political history of Pakistan is characterised by incomplete constitution-making, a process which has placed the burden of constitutional interpretation on state instruments ranging from the... -
Judging the State: Courts and Constitutional Politics in Pakistan by Paula R. Newberg 9780521452892
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £106.88The political history of Pakistan is characterised by incomplete constitution-making, a process which has placed the burden of constitutional interpretation on state instruments ranging from the... -
Henry VIII: Court, Church and Conflict by David Loades 9781905615421
Booksplease Price: £24.92"Henry VIII" focuses on the fluctuating, often fraught relationship between the king and his court, his Church and his people - and with the other powers of continental Europe. It shows how Henry... -
I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063376687
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott KingA beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King... -
NIGO 9781872005911
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £23.30This is the first comprehensive book on the creative universe of NIGO (Tomoaki Nagao) - charting his journey from Toyko in the 1980s to global tastemaker, via a career as influential fashion... -
British Intelligence: Secrets, Spies and Sources by G. Macklin 9781905615001
Booksplease Price: £47.58While other books have speculated on the history and nature of Britain's intelligence services, this is the first to tell the story through the documents themselves. Only ten years ago access to... -
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Sista Said: Words of Wisdom from Women of Color in Social Justice & the Arts by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr 9798989142309
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Two sets of 20 unique letterpress postcards featuring quotes by iconic Black women, from Sojourner Truth to Rosa Parks, from Harriet Tubman to Nina Simone This freshly commissioned set of... -
W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design W a Dwiggins 9780998318004
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £34.80"A book to spend a year with ... Dwiggins did more to promote, diversify, and integrate the graphic, typographic, and printing-arts disciplines than anyone of his generation." -Steven Heller, design... -
New Lives for Old: The Story of Britain's Home Children by Roger Kershaw 9781905615179
Booksplease Price: £56.13Over 100,000 children were sent across the seas to Canada between 1869 and the late 1930s. Thousands of others were dispatched to Australia as well as to New Zealand, South Africa and Rhodesia up to... -
Prison: Five Hundred Years of Life Behind Bars by Edward Marston
Booksplease Price: £61.35This compelling history of our most feared institution charts the growth of prisons across the country: castle dungeons and decaying hulks, the dreadful Fleet and Marshalsea of Dickens' novels and... -
Latin American Textualities: History, Materiality, and Digital Media by Heather J Allen 9780816555321
Booksplease Price: £36.86Textuality is the condition in which a text is created, edited, archived, published, disseminated, and consumed. "Texts," therefore, encompass a broad variety of artifacts: traditional printed matter... -
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer Amos Paul Kennedy Jr 9781736863381
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £37.03Celebrating the storied career of a beloved letterpress printer whose posters spread messages of racial justice Detroit-based letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is celebrated for his... -
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The Luckiest Orphans: A History of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York by Hyman Bogen 9780252018879 [USED COPY]
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £11.55Founded in 1860, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York was the oldest, largest, and best-known Jewish orphanage in the United States until its closing in 1941. This book, the first history of an... -
The Luckiest Orphans: A History of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York by Hyman Bogen 9780252018879
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £33.16Founded in 1860, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York was the oldest, largest, and best-known Jewish orphanage in the United States until its closing in 1941. This book, the first history of an... -
Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest by Colette Gaiter
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £26.54A powerful new exploration of the uses of lettering, type and design to amplify resistance and inspire change-from 19th-century antislavery broadsides to the "Silence = Death" graphics of the AIDS... -
The Vagabond Colette 9780198881582
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.43'Nothing is real except the dance, the light, the freedom, the music.' Colette's semi-autobiographical novel The Vagabond (1910) follows thirty-three-year-old Renee Nere as she embarks on a stage... -
Germany 1944: A British Soldier's Pocketbook by Edward Hampshire 9781903365915
Booksplease Price: £8.71This Soldier's pocketbook from 1944, and the tale of its creation, reveal a fascinating moment of history: a snapshot of prejudices, expectations, assumptions and fears. It was created in conditions... -
Our God Is Marching On by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063350991
Booksplease Price: £16.14A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Our God Is Marching On," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.At the end of the march from Selma to...