They still exist, you know — those friends and relatives who haven’t yet succumbed to the charms of the Kindle or the Nook or the iPad and prefer their gifts tangible as opposed to a gift card. Here are a few of the season’s best gift books.

•  Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey, Bob McCabe; Harper Design, $75: Seven books, eight movies and a theme park — you’re not sick of Harry Potter yet, are you, Muggle? Good. Dive right into McCabe’s 500-plus pages of behind-the-scenes magic, including interviews with the cast, artists’ concepts of the set, props and characters, memorabilia and new photos. Almost as much fun as exciting as winning the Quidditch World Cup.

•  Wish You Were Here: Classic Florida Motel and Restaurant Advertising, Tim Hollis; University Press of Florida, $34.95: Remember when everybody in Florida wore bathing caps and ate at Wolfie’s? Me neither. But Hollis’ kitschy collection of old Sunshine State postcards and advertisements will remind you of what life was like back in the state’s good days, highlighting such classic institutions as Lum’s (hot dogs steamed in beer!) and old school motels (the Weeki Wachee Motel Court!) that are a long way from the Delano but fabulously cool nonetheless.

•  The Ecstasy of Defeat, Onion Sports; Hyperion, $21.99: No subject escapes the satiric eye of the writers of the Onion, and this hilarious collection skewers the holiest target of all: sports. A foreword by Anabolic Steroids kicks things off on just the right note; headlines include “Brett Favre Demands Trade to 1996 Packers,” “God Wastes Miracle on Running Catch in Outfield” and “Augusta National Honors Tiger Woods With Own Drinking Fountain.”

• Shelter Puppies , Michael Kloth; Merrell, $19.99: Dog lovers will want to adopt each and every one of the shelter puppies in Kloth’s charming collection, but it’s too late. Most already found new homes. In real life dogs aren’t always so lucky, but buying the book helps them in a small way: 25 cents from every copy sold in the United States benefits the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

•  The Nation’s Hangar: Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian , F. Robert Van Der Linden; Smithsonian Books, $29.95: Flying didn’t always mean upgrading to first class, as this history of flight shows through text and more than 300 photographs of civilian, military and commercial aircraft. An intriguing walk back through history for anyone who loved the Air and Space Museum as a kid.

•  Catch-22, Joseph Heller; Simon & Schuster, $25: “The rock and roll of novels,” as Norman Mailer called it, celebrates its 50th anniversary, and Simon & Schuster has published a new edition with an introduction by Christopher Buckley. Readers might have a battered paperback still on their shelves, but that’ll disintegrate soon; this edition is a keeper.

•  Visions of the Earth , National Geographic, $40: National Geographic fans could pore over this gorgeous photography book for hours. The concept is that our planet is endlessly marvelous. Yes, but the 250 photos here are not only nature shots — though there are plenty of those, like the staggering close-up of raindrops clinging to a Gerber daisy or an amusing male jawfish incubating eggs in his mouth. The pictures also chronicle manmade marvels as well. Amazing how lovely a stack of crushed cars in a Canadian scrap yard can be.