Search Results: Authors starting with S from The Antique Map & Bookshop

London, Messrs. Fores, Piccadilly, 1891 - 1901. Eleven Volumes. Hardbacks, approx 9 x 6 inches. Bound with original pictorial black and gilt decorative red cloth boards, blind embossed on rears, and later leather fine binding to spines, with raised banding, gilt lettering and sporting vignettes. Dark grey endpapers, full gilt page edging. In very good conditions. Stunning later leather spines, Some minor rubbing to designs on front boards, with some minor fading and rubbing to cloth on corners and edges. Else covers are still very clean and bright. Endpapers clean, but have darkened the front halftitle pages and last final pages. Some foxing to main title pages, contents etc, with some foxing to inside pages at outer edges. Else pages and plates overall all clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight set. 11 volumes. Complete years 1891 to 1901. (Volume numbers VII to XVIII) Illustrated with many full page B&W plates (mid-tan plates with black print and white highlight.)

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, (Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY) 1926 1st. Large hardback, approx 14 x 11 inches. Green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Beveled edges. In very good condition. Some rubbing to cloth on edges and corners of spine and boards. Endpapers clean, no previous owners marks or inscriptions. Some minor tanning to pages, with some occasional minor handling/thumb marks to edges. Page edges rough/uncut. Tissue guards tanned and mildly foxed. Minor tear to edge of guard at frontis. Plates all remain clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight 1st edition. 195pp. Illustrated with 16 colour mounted plates, and with 29 smaller B&W sketches within text. With decorative coloured letterpieces.

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, 1927 2nd. Large hardback, approx 14 x 11 inches. Navy blue cloth with blind embossed lettering to front and gilt lettering to spine. top edges blued. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks to cover, some minor handling marks, small rubbed/lightly soiled patch to bottom rear board corner. Endpapers mildly foxed. Neat inscription to front prelim “Denis, with many thans and much love and hoping that we can do the same for you sometime. Elizabeth and Martin (Norman).” Inside pages and plates all very clean and tight throughout. Page edges rough/uncut. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 195pp. Illustrated with 16 colour mounted plates, and with 29 smaller B&W sketches within text. With decorative coloured letterpieces.

Michael Joseph Ltd. 1945 1st.. 8.0 x 5.5 inches. In pale green cloth covers with siver gilt lettering to spine and decor to front. With decorated dustwrapper. Patterned endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. spine slightly darkened and rubbed at ends with small piece missiong from top end. A couple of small marks to front. Slight browning to front fly leaf. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Slight fading to ends of spine. Else a clean and tight copy. 247 pp. A collection of the selectors’ favourite passages and quotations. Divided into months, the subjects broadly cover love, nature, philosophy and some miscellaneous. There are a few in Greek and Latin with translations but French passages are in the original languge.

London. Michael Joseph. 1961 1st.. 8.0 x 5.0 inches. In purple cloth covers with gilt to spine. With decorated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Slightly rubbed around edges. Price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Edges slightly darkened. Neat inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 156 pp. A novel in the form of the diary of the last few weeks in the life of Edmund Carr. Receiving the diagnosis, he embarks on a sea voyage to follow the woman with whom he is secretly in love.

London. The Hogarth Press. 1938 1st.. 8.75 x 5.5 inches. In orange cloth covers with gilt to spine. With original dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine darkened and slightly rubbed. A couple of small chips. Not price clipeed. With protective plastic wrap). Mild foxing to edges. Front free endpaper missing. Slight browning to back endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 56 pp. A long poem of a philosophical nature.

London. Michael Joseph. 1951 1st edition 2nd impression. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. In grey cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine slightly darkened with a few small nicks edges of spine. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Attractive Private bookplate (M.J. Proctor) to front free endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 257 pp. With b/w plates. The author’s first gardening book, from articles published in The Observer. A month by month guide to plants and work to be done in the garden. Includes are and earlier book, ‘A lLittle Flower Book’, a seventeenth century treatise on the flower garden ‘Some Flowers’, and an article on Hidcote Manor. The appendix gives a short list of Nurserymen.

London. Michael Joseph. 1953 1st.. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine slightly darkened with a few small nicks edges of spine, and small mark. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Attractive Private bookplate (M.J. Proctor) to front free endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 178 pp. With b/w plates. The author’s second gardening book, from articles published in The Observer between February 1951 and March 1953.

London. Michael Joseph. 1947 3rd imp.. 8.75 x 5.5 inches. In brown cloth covers with silver gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Patterned endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine slightly darkened. Slightly rubbed around edges with small piece missing from back bottom edge. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Small marks to fore edges. Neat inscription to half title page, dated 1948. Neat pencil inscription to one page inside. Else a clean and tight copy. 135 pp. Collection of poetry. In five sections, The Garden, Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn.

London. Wiliam Heinemann Ltd. 1939 reprint.. 7.0 x 5.0 inches. In brown cloth covers with black lettering to title label on spine. With original dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. handling marks to back. Price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). A clean and tight copy. 96 pp. A collection of poems based on the four seasons.

New York. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. 1930 1st US edition.. 7.25 x 4.75 inches. In black cloth covers with black lettering to title labels on spine and front. With original dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine slightly darkened and rubbed at ends. Small chip at top end and small chip to back top edge. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Author’s neat inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1933. Slight browning to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 35 pp. A collection of poems. The inscription reads, “For Georgia Black, V.Sackville-West. Dana Hall, Jan 22 1933”. It was signed during the author’s US lecture tour in early 1933.

London, Macmillan & Co., 1922 1st Ltd Ed. 300 copies.. Two Volumes. Hardbacks, 9 x 7 inches. Quarterbound maroon cloth to spines and vellum parchment to boards. Gilt lettering to spines, with gilt line details and signature designs to fronts. In very good condition. Spine faded on vol.1. Darkening to vellum on boards. Bump to top edge of front board vol.1. Boards part faded with handling marks. Slight browning to endpapers. Occasional small marks. Else a clean and tight copy. 298 & 371pp. When Macmillan first published this book in 1920 it soon became the centre of a new field of scholarship - oenophilly. This book is a series of reminiscences based on Professor Saintsbury’s purchases from 1884 to 1915 and on his dinner-party menus which accompanied them. Although the greater part of the text is devoted to wine, there are substantial sections on beer, cider and spirits, of which the good Professor kept a considerable store in his cellar. It has inspired many amateurs to experiment… Read More

Lahore, Sang-e-Meel Publications, 1969 (facsimile reprint of the original 1843 edition.). Hardback, 8.5 x 6 inches. Red faux leather covers with gilt to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. Patterned endpapers. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (DW laminated on front side, crease to lamination on front, minor stain to corner.) Some rubbing and bumps to edges of boards. Pencil inscription to main title page, “Lahore Museum, 30th September 1997.” Inside pages all clean and tight. Else a clean and tight copy. 451pp.

Collins. New Naturalist 1961 1st edition. Size 6.0 x 8.75 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Slightly rubbed along edges, a few small closed nicks neatly repaired on verso. Not price clipped). One small dent on spine. Else a clean and tight copy. 384pp. With colour frontispiece, b/w photographs, line drawings by author, diagrams, maps. The New Naturalist. Vol.43. The idea that because weeds are a nuisance they must also be dull is dispelled in a few pages. Not only does the author show that an understanding of these criminals of the plant world will make their control both easier and more interesting: he also imparts to the reader something of his own delight and wonder.

Faber and Faber. 1940 1st edition.. Size 5.5 x 8.5 inches. In red cloth covers with yellow lettering to spine. With original dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Owner’s neat pencil inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 2026 pp. The author, a journalist was in Poland in 1939 and here records the out break of hostilities, and accompanied the government to Rumania, later visiting Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. Concludes in Turkey during earthquakes.

Orion. 2000 1st.. 7.0 x 10.0 inches. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition. With very good dustwrapper. (d/w. slightly creased at top edge. Price clipped). Illustrator’s signature ro main title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 158 pp. With many b/w line drawings. Instruction book on how to disrupt dinner paries, cocktail parties, weddings, Christmas, birthdays and other social gatherings.

Quality Press Limited. 1947 (1st.).. 7.5 x 5.0 inches. In beige cloth covers with black lettering to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Handling marks to back. Slightly rubbed around edges. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Neat inscription to front endpapers, dated 1950. Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 256 pp. Thriller.

London. Cpountry Life Limited. 1937 1st.. 7.5 x 5.0 inches. In yellow cloth covers with black lettering to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w.Spine darkened with small pieces missing. Slightly rubbed along edges. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Edges slightly bumped. Slight browning to endpapers. neat inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 188 pp. With b/w line drawings. Recipes ancient and modern from Sussex. Includes Soups,fish, game pies, grill, beef, vegetables, sauces, pickles, cakes, preserves and more.

London. Herbert Jenkins Limited. 1946 1st.. 7.5 x 5.0 inches. In orange cloth covers with black lettering to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine and back slightly rubbed with small tear and creases at back. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 190 pp. Murder mystery.

The Metallurgical Society of AIME 1983 1st.. 6.0 x 9.0 inches. In silvered cloth covers with black lettering to spine and front. In near fine condition. A very clean and tight copy. 692 pp. With b/w photographs, diagrams, graphs and tables.