Antique Pipe Collection
Pipes – Illustrated Pipe Book in Japanese
Previously part of a collection of Pipe Books.
Beautifully illustrated.
Good Condition
Rare Smoke – The Ultimate Guide to Pipe Collecting
Author: Richard Carleton Hacker
Has been personalised: To John: Signed by Richard Carleton Hacker
Condition of book and sleeve: Very Good
De Tabakspijp Als Oranje Propaganda – D H Duco
The Tobacco Pipe as Orange Propaganda
This book is in Dutch
Was part of the John Adler collection of Pipe Books.
Excellent Condition.
Weber’s Guide to Pipes and Pipe Smoking
This is an original publication.
This book has been signed by Carl Weber
The book pages are quite brown but otherwise in good condition.
Kunstwerke in Porzellan – Walter Morgenroth (printed in German)
Works of art in porcelain
Previously part of the John Adler collection of Pipe Books.
The book is in good condition. Hardback
Price: £15 + postage
The Gentle Art of Smoking – Alfred Dunhill
First Edition
Book in Very Good condition.
Cover has some tears (as per photo).
Use of Tobacco Among North American Indians by Ralph Linton (Assistant Curator of North American Ethnology)
Anthropology Leaflet 15 – Field Museum of Natural History – Chicago 1924
This Leaflet is a First Edition.
The Cover is detached with a tear and the edges are scuffed (shown in photo). However, the contents are in pretty good condition .
The leaflet has 28 pages with several illustrations.
Please contact me if you have any questions or require more photos.
UK postage: free
The Swedish Pipe Book (Swedish)
Author: Claes Krantz.
Was part of a collection of Pipe Books.
This book is printed in 4,500 copies on paper from Munkedals B Bruk AR 1946
Has some foxing and some nips on a few pages.
Price: £12 + £5 postage
Indian Art in Pipestone – George Catlin’s Portfolio in the British Museum
1st Edition.
Editor John C Ewers
ISBN 0-87474-420-2
Book is in excellent condition. Hardback cover is in reasonable condition, a little discoloured on back cover.
The Forest Guide to Smoking in London – Edited by James Leavey
With photographs by Jan Olofsson.
ISBN: 1-899163-298
Soft Cover . In good condition.
Pages 221
Nat Sherman’s A Passion for Cigars
Joel Sherman – President and Chief Executive Officer.
Book is in excellent condition with sleeve.
157 pages
ISBN: 668617100
Price: £15 + £5 postage.
Pipes – Artisans and Trademarks by Jose Manuel Lopes
By Jose Manuel Lopes with a foreword by Ben Rapaport and an introductory text by Gregory Pease.
Condition: Book is in excellent condition. Cover a little creased at edges.
Koninklijke Goedewaagen (1779-1982) – written in Dutch
A versatile ceramic Company
This book is about one of the biggest clay pipe companies in Holland.
Was part of the John Adler Collection of Pipe Books
Very Good Condition.
Europe’s Pipemaker Brands and Models by Stan Hill
From the John Adler collection of Pipe Books
Excellent condition and illustrated.
Hardback
ISBN 978-3-7688-1987-9
Austrian Tobacco Museum
Ein fuhrer durch das museum von AUSTRIA TABAK
A Guide through the Museum
Was part of a collection of Pipe Books.
Tresors Et Histoire de la Pipe a Tabac
Treasures and History of the Tobacco Pipe
This catalogue was part of the John Adler collection of Pipe Books.
Excellent Condition.
Mit Vollem Gunuss Pfeife Rauchen – German
Heiko Behrens – Holger Fricket
Smoke a Pipe with Complete Enjoyment
Everything about tobacco pipes and accessories
Hardback – Very Good Condition.
The Intriguing Design of Tobacco Pipes
Author: Benedict Goes
Book is in Good Condition.
Nicotiana Tabacum – Georg A Brongers
Hardback Book is in good condition
Price: £15 + £5 postage
Collecting Antique Meerschaum Pipes – Ben Rapaport
A must for any Meerschaum pipe collector.
The book is well illustrated.
In good condition.
Meerschaumpfeifen – Eine Ruhlaer Legende (written in German)
Author : Anton Manger
Meerschaum pipes “A Ruhla legend”
Previously part of a collection of Pipe Books. Signed by Anton Manger
Good Condition
Merken en merkenrecht van de pijpenmakers in Gouda (printed in Dutch) – D H Duco
Brands and trademark law of the pipe makers in Gouda
A large section of the book consists of a comprehensive list of gouda pipe marks, complete with clear illustrations, the successive owners and the periods in which they were active. This publication offers archaeologists and historians alike the opportunity not only of dating excavated pipes but also of personally identifying them.
Previously part of the John Adler collection of Pipe Books.
Book in Good Condition
The Ultimate Cigar Encyclopaedia
Author: Julian Holland
Beautifully illustrated. With Sleeve
Consultant: Neil Millington
Condition: Very Good
ISBN: 1 85967 755 X
ISBN 1 85967 755x
The Ultimate Pipe Book – Richard Carleton Hacker
Has been personalised: To John. Signed by Richard Carleton Hacker.
Book and sleeve in good condition.
ISBN 0-931253-00-4
Price: £25 + £5 postage
The Pipe Book – Alfred Dunhill
Illustrated with 228 line drawings, 30 photographs and 3 maps.
Book in good condition, sleeve a little scuffed around edges.
£5 (UK postage).
Cachimbos – Marcas, Fabricantes E Artesaos
by Jose Manuel Lopes
This book is in excellent condition with a sleeve.
The book has a small personalised message and is signed by the author.
UK postage: free
A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes – B Rapaport
Dedicated to all silent pipe collectors that the joys of pipe collecting not go unsung!
Signed by Ben Rapaport and inscribed to John Adler (pipe collector)
ISBN: 0916838226
256 Pages
Printed in USA.
Pipesmoking – A 21st Century Guide – Richard Carleton Hacker
This book is from the author of the Ultimate Pipe Book
ISBN: 0931253-13-6
The book has been personalised and signed by the author.
In good condition.
UK Postage: free
Pipe-Smoking Contest – Jacek Schmidt
ISBN: 83920842-1-7
The book is in very good condition. Hard Back .
What every pipe-smoker should know about the pipe-smoking contest.
The book has been signed by Jacek Schmidt and inscribed to John Adler (pipe collector).
UK postage: free
The Book of the Havana Cigar – Brian Innes
This book is a compendium of facts, figures and anecdotes about the king of cigars from its earliest days in Colombian America to this present day as a luxury .
Condition: Very Good with sleeve.
ISBN 085613-546-1
UK postage: free
Faqjka jako dzielo sztuki – A Pipe as work of Art
This is a beautifully illustrated book with side-by-side Polish/English translation about the most interesting pipes from the best Polish collections and Snuffboxes from Pomerania.
ISBN: 978-83-934781-3-3
Hard Back in Fine Condition.
Confessions of a Pipeman – Gary B Schrier
An irreverent guide for today’s pipe-smoking man. With a foreword by Marty Pulvers
First Edition.
Personalised and signed by Gary B Schrier
This book comes with a sketch of Gary Schrier by a street artist at Leicester Square in 2008.
Soft Cover. 90 Pages (ISBN 9780578-00146-3)
UK postage: free
The First English Pipe Smoker in Japan
Le Premier Fumeur de Pipe Anglais au Japon.
This is a limited edition to 400 copies.
This work has been edited and printed by Academie International de la Pipe, Paris October 1997
40 Pages. In Very Good condition.
Author: Barney T Suzuki
Uk postage: free
Gentlemen Only – Meyer Roland Hochrain
Hard Back Cover
This book has annotated pipe illustrations (in German). Very comical.
Book in good condition. Two small losses on top of the spine (see picture)
Tabacco E Fumo – Nella Pittura
This book is printed in Italian and is in good condition.
The hard back folder is slightly discoloured (see photo).
However the book is enclosed in the hard back folder so the contents are very good,
102 plates, mostly black and white.
Strengbergs 1762-1962
This book is written in Finnish (attached to the book is an English Summary)
This is the story of the tobacco factory in Jakobstad, the present Oy. Ph. U Strengberg & Kini AB written by Professor Oscar Nikula.
The book is in good condition. The cover is slightly torn (see photo)
The Art of Pipe Smoking – Joaquin Verdaguer
Hard Back- Produced in 1958 by the Curlew Press Ltd London WC2
This Hard Back book is in very good condition with a couple of minor scuffs on binder.
Tobacco Its Culture and Manufacture
This is a hard back, 2nd edition book, June 1936
Printed in England by Mardon, Son & Hall, Bristol. Branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co (of Gt Britain and Ireland) Ltd.
Some browning in the book and some slight damage to the cover (see photo)
An Old Snuff House of Fribourg & Treyer 1720-1920 at the sign of the Rasp & Crown, No. 34 St James’s Haymarket.
1st Edition.
Of this Booklet 1,000 copies only have been produced and printed by Donald Macbeth at the Artists Press, Balham, London. January 1921.
Author: George Evans
This Book has some Foxing throughout otherwise in good condition
Pages 49
UK postage free.
The GBD St Claude Story – JW Cole
This is the history of the Cadogan French Pipe houses.
St Claude refers mainly to C J Verguet Freres also known as Sina GBD St Claude, Maison Ruchon or ”La Grande Usine” and finally as Cadogan France Ltd
First published in Great Britain b y Cadogan Investments Ltd, London.
Hard Back – 199 pages. In Very Good Condition.
RARE – Use of Tobacco in New Guinea & Neighboring Regions
by Albert B Lewis (Assistant Curator of Melanesian Ethnology)
Field Museum of Natural History – Chicago 1924 . – Anthropology Leaflet 17
This is a First Edition.
The Cover is scuffed around the edges (as in photo). The book contents is in good condition.
11 Pages.
An Armchair in the Smoking Room – 1st Edition.
Fiction, Anecdote, Humour and Fancy for Dreamy half-hours.
With notes on Cigars, meerschaums, and Smoking from various Pens.
347 Pages and 26 sketches.
Scuffed corners and some foxing.
Please contact me if you require any further information or photos.
L’Art De La Pipe – J Ch. Rhein. – Cabinet D’Amateur Geneve
This is a catalogue of the first exhibition organised by Cabinet D’Amateur in Geneve
The book is complete and in good condition. However, the pages have become unglued from the spine.
The catalogue is in French.
Well illustrated.
UK postage: free