Cheerleader Productions Ltd Blog
I’m planning to use these blogs to chat about books I have bought, and are now offered for sale. Perhaps also to write a little about the trips I take to find interesting books to sell to my customers.
What comes before a First EDition?
The scarcity of a first edition is directly related to the size of the print run, and to a lesser degree at the point at which people started keeping first print copies because they thought they might be worth money one day. For all but the rarest first editions,...
Air mail
Dearest gentle reader, as Lady Whistledown would say, most of you know I buy and sell books to give me something to do instead of dealing drugs or importuning passers-by as I patiently fill the time spent in God’s waiting room. The books I acquire sometimes have items...
You Can Judge a Book By Looking at Its Cover
Well, I certainly bought this book from just a glance at its cover! Apart from the striking image, of which more in a moment, the book ticks all my boxes for one I would like to have in my listings to sell to to my customers. It is certainly a definitive reference for...
Icons of Art
The Indonesian National Museum is one of the oldest museums in Asia, and for anyone interested in the cultural and national heritage of Indonesia it is the one place not to be missed. For those unable to visit Indonesia, Icons of Art brings this heritage to them in an...
New York Through a Fashion Eye
I wouldn’t have said that I was especially interested in fashion, but I have now added to stock a lovely (“absolutely fabulous darling”) little number about the New York fashion scene. It’s an illustrated guide to the fashionista's New York. The publisher’s blurb...
Books wot I wrote
One of the side benefits of having a platform to sell books is that I can offer for sale my own Meisterwerke, now sadly out of print and in high demand by collectors (I wish!). I have had three books published so far, with a fourth in the pipeline. My first venture...
Tony Bennett in the Studio
One of the joys of going out hunting – for books in my case – is you just don’t know what (if anything) you are going to find. Yesterday, the book above turned up Until I picked up this American book I didn’t know singer Tony Bennett was also a talented artist....
The Royal Women of Armana
I’m going to start off by telling you about a wonderful book you can’t buy from my site – because I sold it this morning! It’s an amazing and beautiful book from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, published in conjunction with the exhibition Queen Nefertiti and...