Skylona: the bookshop for the creatively curious
SECOND HAND AND RARE BOOKS AND EPHEMERA
Featured items from our collections
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Contemporary British Sculpture 1960 | Arts Council catalogue, 1960
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Let’s Look at Houses and Homes by Joan Morey | Frederick Muller, 1964 illustrated by Kenneth E. Carter
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Raucous Invention. The Joy of Making by Mark Hearld Thames & Hudson, 2025 SIGNED
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Machines which seem to think by Marie Neurath. Max Parrish, London, 1954 Isotype Institute
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Henry Moore – Back to a Land | Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2016
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Oscillations issue 3 Blackford Hill & Random Spectacular, 2022
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Patrick Caulfield | Waddington Custot Galleries, 2013
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Folder The Golden Cockerel Press private press books spring list 1937 includes John Milton Paradise Lost
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L’Illustration 31 October 1925. No 4313 Arts Decoratifs Moderne
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London Craftsman by Marjorie Quennell London Transport Passenger Board 1939
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New Development & Underground Station Tottenham Court Road Michael Hopkins 1991
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Gavin Turk | Text by Judith Collins and Ian Sinclair | Prestel, 2013 | signed by the artist
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Eduardo Paolozzi. The Metallization of a Dream | John Munday, 1963 | Limited edition
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Farbe und Form. Monatsschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe | Mit der beilage ‘Mitteilungen der Schule [Albert] Reimann' | 12 Jahrgang, 10/11, November 1927
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Three ‘Monotype’ Scripts by Imre Reiner: Matura / Mercurius / Pepita | The Monotype Corporation type specimen leaflet
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Art exhibition catalogues
We have a significant selection of vintage and hard-to-find catalogues from some truly inspiring exhibitions; from internationally renowned shows to the more obscure.
Skylona: rare, esoteric and obscure
For those with creative leanings, our collection of vintage books, catalogues, journals and elusive ephemera focuses exclusively on the creative and applied arts, and all aspects of design.
We hope you love our stuff as much as we do. (And please come back regularly – we’re always adding more stock.)
You can either Search by title or name, or explore our Collections below:
Explore our collections...
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Architecture
Our ever-growing selection of vintage architecture books and journals offers a window...
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Art Exhibition Catalogues
Over 1,400 vintage exhibition catalogues – primarily from the 1950s onwards –...
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Art History
This fascinating and diverse selection of second hand and vintage art history...
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Books, Book Design and Prospectuses
This wide-ranging collection of vintage material covers the subjects of book design...
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Ceramics, Pottery and Glass
This far-reaching selection of books and journals spans all aspects of glassmaking,...
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Fashion and Textiles
This wide-ranging collection of books, journals and ephemera offers a rich blend...
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Graphic Design
A gateway to creativity, this inspiring collection of vintage material offers insights...
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Industrial Design and Furniture
For designers, academics, students, or simply those passionate about design, this fascinating...
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Lettering and Calligraphy
This exciting selection of books and journals offers a unique window into...
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Monographs – artists and designers
This significant collection of vintage monograph titles shines a light on the...
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Photography and Film
This inspiring collection of vintage books and journals covers many of the...
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Printing and Print Techniques
This fascinating collection of vintage books and journals explores the world of...
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Type Specimens
This amazing selection of hard-to-find vintage brochures, booklets and promotional material represents...
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Typography
This large collection of vintage typography-focused books, catalogues and journals explores how...
Artist and designer monographs
Hundreds of rare and unusual items that shine a light on the inspiring creatives who shaped our visual world.
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Man Ray: Paris Photographs 1920-34 | Delano Greenidge | New York, 2000
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Art as Revelation | Frank Avray Wilson | Centaur Press 1981
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Sir James Gowans. Romantic Rationalist Duncan McAra Paul Harris Publishing, 1975 limited edition signed copy
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John Salt. The Complete Works 1969-2006 by Linda Chase | Plus One Publishing in association with Philip Wilson Publishers, 2007
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Just your type?
A truly incredible selection of type specimen leaflets, catalogues and vintage printed ephemera from the world's leading type foundries, including Deberny & Peignot, Monotype, Fonderie Olive, Bauersche Gießerei and Linotype.
Our latest stock
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Vier Eeuwen Stilleven in Frankrijk | Museum Boymans, Rotterdam 1954
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Harris-Intertype Matrix staff Handbook, undated
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Bridget Riley gallery guide | Tate Britain | June-September 2003
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Type specimen – Rondo | Typefoundry Amsterdam | Design by Dick Dooyes, undated
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Prospectus – ‘The Paper Makers Craft’ | Will Carter | Twelve by Eight Press 1965
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Type specimen sheet | Quirinus | Design by Alessandro Butti | Societá Nebiolo, undated
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The Popular Culture of Modern Art. Picasso, Duchamp and Avnt-Gardism | Jeffrey Weiss | Yale 1994
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Rookledge’s International Typefinder | Christopher Perfect, revised by Phil Baines, 1990
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Graphic design inspiration
Our selection of rare books and vintage material covers the designers and movements that have influenced generations of graphic designers.
Packaged with care
Every item dispatched by Skylona is wrapped in acid-free tissue and, for booklets and ephemera, a conservation-grade polyester archival pocket.
Items are then double- or triple-packaged in rigid, fully-recyclable cardboard book wraps.
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