Gail Ellis

IntroductionAgatha Christie (1890 – 1976) is one of the greatest crime novelists of our time with sales of her books reaching over four billion copies worldwide. Although Christie had written romance novels, short stories and screenplays this eBook concentrates only on her crime writings. It consist...

IntroductionArt Deco derived from France in 1908 to 1939. The trend took off in the 1920’s and quickly flourished throughout many parts of the world. The Great Depression resulted in the style to tail off as people were looking for something new. The style began to wane further with the onset of the...

IntroductionMarc Chagall born Moishe Segal (1887 – 1985) is one of the most famous of Russian artists of our time. Born in Vitebsk this remarkable artist became a skilled painter, lithographer, designer and etcher. His artworks sell for millions and his book illustrations are in such high demand as ...

Henry Graham Greene (1904 – 1901) wrote many novels surveying the political and moral issues of the day. Some of his novels displeased many people, including Graham Greene himself. Many of his works are now quite valuable and this eBook explores the values of each of those novels and why some are wo...

Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1873) was one of the co-founders of the Cubist movement and is considered the most famous Spanish artist of our time. The demand for his works on paper has seen prices rocket in recent years. Many of these works are found in books. This eBook will help you find them by giving y...

IntroductionCollecting rare illustrated books can be extremely profitable as well as enjoyable. This eBook will help you in your search by revealing what gives a book its value. It gives examples of rare books and discusses the reasons why they are valuable along with the prices that they obtained a...

This eBook looks at some of the various bags made by this world renowned company and gives an indication of prices that these bags have obtained at auction houses in Europe and America. Prices will be stated in the currency of the country of the sale and will give the pound, dollar and euro wherever...

Tamara de Lempicka had a style all of her own. She did not copy other artists directly. Her artistic goals were to create a new style using light and bright colours with the emphasis on elegance in her models. She said “I was the first woman who did clear painting – and that was the success of my pa...