Antiques from Mike Park Ltd

Brightwell-cum-Sotwell: King of the Road Publications, 2024. Very well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 399, red cloth, a very good NEW copy in dustwrapper. Limited numbered edition of 400 copies, this copy signed by the author. A heavy book - extra postage will be needed. { The invention and popularizing of the bicycle was one of the many revolutions that affected… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1969. Well illustrated, quarto, pp 128, very clean internally, paperback, a slight scuff to the uppe cover otherwise very bright, a very good copy.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Arno Press, 1979. Originally published 1897. Facsimile reprint, thick octavo, pp xviii, 486, traces of a price label on the front endpaper otherwise very clean internally, red cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is faded, age-toned and slightly worn.. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn and faded.

Shrewsbury: Irlife Publishing Ltd, 1990. Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 224, paperback. The fore-edge is scuffed and marked, there are ceases and folds to the front cover, the half-title, the title page and the next two pages, otherwise just slightly worn internally. [An American book published by Stoeger; Airlife Publishing were the UK distributors].. Third edition. Paperback. Fair.… Read more about this item

London: British Museum Publications, 1982. Very well illustrated, large octavo, pp 128, paperback, a very good copy.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Christie's, 2002. Very well illustrated, large tall quarto, pp 315, very clean internally, paperback, a very good copy. SCARCE. [A heavy book - extra postage may be needed].. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Ernest Benn Ltd & University of Toronto Press, 1970. Well illustrated with colour plates of wood sections, quarto, pp 175, very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is very slightly worn. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn.

Flagstaff: Northland Publishing, 1999. Very well illustrated, large horizontal octavo, pp viii, 189, very clean internally, paperback, slight signs of use to the covers and the rear cover and last page with a crease.. Paperback. Good.

Northland Publishing, 1991. Eighth printing. Large horizontal octavo, pp 149, very clean internally, paperback, the covers in very good condition but slightly curved.. Paperback. Very Good.

Milan: Libraria Antiquaria Hoepli, 1949. Tall quarto, illustrated with 50 colour plates and descriptive letterpress, (Italian text), very slightly used internally, paper covered boards, a little worn and age-toned. [A glamorous but unpriced bookseller's catalogue of rare manuscripts and bindings from the fourteenth through to the sixteenth centuries.]. First Edition. Boards. Good.

Japan: Akira kuni-sha [Not dated, probably 1950/1952]. Japanese text, with a half-page English introduction. Large slender octavo, pp 63, a little used generally, and now VERY weak internally with an internal hinge which is badly broken and just holding on the strings (see illustration), bound in Japanese paper-covered boards with a similar slipcase. RARE. [Immensely useful for its exhaustive… Read more about this item

Billinghurst: Sotheby's, 1988. Well illustrated, quarto, pp 160, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn. . Paperback. Very Good.

London & Sydney: White Lion Publishers, 1976. Illustrated, octavo, pp xii, 341, exceptionally clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and shows only the very slightest signs of age-toning. An excellent copy.. Cloth. As New/Very Good.

Herford: Stobart Davies Ltd, 1991. Illustrated with line drawings and a few black and white photographs, quarto, pp 111, very clean internally, paperback, the upper cover slightly creased, appears to be signed by author on the title page. VERY SCARCE. [Covers the bowed psaltery, the rote or lyre, compostelan lute, Appalachian dulcimer, flat-backed mandolin, gothic harp and classic guitar..… Read more about this item

1975. Illustrated, slender square octavo, pp 39, scattered foxing, a little used internally, paperback, covers faded and a little worn. SCARCE. [A small exhibition of jewellery using plant and animal materials - amber, jet, bog oak, wood seed, coral, beeswax, fish scales, bone hair etc.]. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Mainz am Rhein, 2002. Very well illustrated, square octavo, pp 95, very clean internally, paperback, the slightest signs of use to the covers. VERY SCARCE. . First English edition. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Butterworths, 1985. Ninth edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, four colour plates, and black and white photographs, octavo, pp (10), 434, very clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Studio Vista, 1973. Very well illustrated, small quarto, pp 192, a neat inscription on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Guildford & London: Lutterworth Press, 1974. Well illustrated, small octavo, pp 225, very clean, blue cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper with one small tear on its lower cover, otherwise only slight signs of use.. First English edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn and Torn.

Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society, 1974. A few illustrations, slender octavo, pp 26, the lower margin of all the pages is damp stained, otherwise very good in original card covers. [With several articles on Jet inserted.] SCARCE.. Paperback. Good.