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By Appointment To H.R.H. The Duke Of Edinburgh Booksellers Est. 1978 www.bibliophilebooks.com ISSN 1478-064X CATALOGUE NO. 338 JAN 2016 78920 ART GLASS OF LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY Inside this issue... ○○○○○○○○○○ by Paul Doros ○○○○○○○○○○ WAR AND MILITARIA The Favrile ‘Aquamarine’ vase of • Cosy & Warm Knits page 10 1914 and the ‘Dragonfly’ table lamp are some of the tallest and most War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is astonishingly beautiful examples of • Pet Owner’s Manuals page 15 like typhus. ‘Aquamarine’ glass ever produced. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery The sinuous seaweed, the • numerous trapped air bubbles, the Fascinating Lives page 16 varying depths and poses of the fish heighten the underwater effect. 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