This month ImpalaPrints have finally been able to reopen trading and I would like to thank all our new customers that have purchased from us in such a difficult time.
Now that service has resumed we are once again shipping worldwide on a daily basis and keen to take new...
Often books appear on my desk that epitomize an era or a phase in history, a great struggle or a social movement. These are books that are more than their physical selves for they hold within a spirit and the direction of an entire generation.
Ladybird books – Observer Guides – Shown to Children – pocket Shakespeare
ImpalaPrints offer great gift ideas in the run up to Christmas this year and in this blog I present these attractive pocket guides that are perfect for gifting. With a...
ImpalaPrints have been busy collecting great books and prints this past month and will soon be adding these to the site.
As always we look for books that are on a wide array of subjects, pass at a high standard of condition and would make fascinating gifts. Be sure to k...
Books are great sources of inspiration from classic works of fiction and fantasy to factual books that teach. Today I focus in on the genera of travel and exploration one that takes us away to faraway lands to corners of the world we can only dream about.
Antique books give us a rare view into the past, they connect us to places and a time that in our modern lives we often forget. Picture books are a perfect example of this, at ImpalaPrints with have quite the selection of city picture books from the 1940s. This book pi...
One of the most fascinating aspects of working with antique books is the sense of history that is contained within them. I frequently work with books that are 150 years old which I can often take for granted, one thing that reminds me of the history of these items are...
Many poets have written of nature but few with the imagery feeling and landscape like the poet John Keats (1795-1821). A choice favourite would be ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ written in 1819, a beautiful poem that conjures up the universal feeling of summer…
