Antique Pipe Collection
Antique Pipes
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.
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
The Arts of An Addiction – by Carlos Armero and Ben Rapaport
Limited Edition: Copy 116 of 500
Qing Dynasty Opium Pipes and Accessories
This book was part of a collection and has been personalised with a signature from Ben Rapaport.
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 European Clay Pipe – D H Duco 1830-1940
This is a comprehensive guide to European Clay Pipes
The book is in excellent condition. Soft Cover.
ISBN: 90-70849-22-4
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 excellent condition.
A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes – B Rapaport
Dedicated to all silent pipe collectors that the joys of pipe collecting not go unsung!
ISBN: 0916838226
Printed in USA.
The Art of Opium Antiques – Steve Martin
1st Edition.
Photographs by Paul Lakatos
ISBN: 10: 974 1122-0
ISBN: 13: 9789749511220
First Published in 2007 by Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai 50200 Thailand. Printed in China.
Publisher: Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP
Number of pages: 128
Weight: 476 g
Dimensions: 216 x 216 x 11 mm
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.
Nat Sherman’s A Passion for Cigars
Joel Sherman – President and Chief Executive Officer.
Book is in excellent condition with sleeve.
Price: £15 + £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).
Museum of Tobacco Art & History Guide Book – Nashville Tennessee
Author: Benjamin Rapaport
This book is in excellent condition with a sleeve.
The Book of Pipes & Tobacco by Carl Ehwa Jr
Well illustrated
The book is in excellent condition. The cover has slight tears around the edges.
It has been signed by Carl Ehwa Jr and was a gift to John Adler (collector).
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)
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.
The Pipe Book – Alfred Dunhill
1924 1st edition.
Twenty-eight full-page plates (four in colour) and two hundred and thirty illustrations printed in the text
There is some slight browning. The hard back cover has some slight scuffing around the edges.
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)
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.
Strengbergs 1762-1962
This book is written in Swedish (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)
Tabacco E Fumo – Nella Pittura
This book is printed in Italian and is in good condition.
The cover is slightly discoloured (see photo).
However the book in enclosed in a hard back folder so the contents are very good,
102 plates.
Gentlemen Only – Meyer Roland Hochrain
Hard Back Cover
This book has annotated pipe illustrations (in German). Very comical.
Book in good condition. Hardback cover a little scuffed.
The First English Pipe Smoker in Japan
Le Premier Fumeur de Pipe Anglais au Japon.
This is a limited edition to 400 copies.
40 Pages. In Very Good condition.
Author: Barney T Suzuki
Tobacco and its Associations with Bristol – WD & HO Wills
This is a rare soft cover book of 34 pages and is a brief history of Bristol’s association with tobacco.
The cover page is a little scuffed but the book itself is in good condition.
Our Family Business – Mary Dunhill
This is a signed copy by Mary Dunhill
ISBN: 0 370 30229 x
This hard back book is in very good condition with a cover.
The Gentle Art of Smoking – Alfred Dunhill
First Edition
Book in Very Good condition.
Cover has some tears (as per photo).
The Forest Guide to Smoking in London – James Leavey
With photographs by Jan Olofsson.
ISBN: 1-899163-298
Soft Cover . In very good condition.
The History of the Calabash Pipe – Gary B Schrier
Foreword by Ben Rapaport.
This is a first edition.
Signed by Gary B Schrier and personalised as a gift to John Adler (collector)
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.
The Intriguing Design of Tobacco Pipes
Author: Benedict Goes
Book is in Good 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.
Pfeifen Durch Die Jahrhunderte ( in German)
Pipes through the Centuries
Was part of the John Adler collection of Pipe Books.
Hardback book in good condition.
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
Das Taschenbuch des Pfeifenrauchers (German)
The Pipe smoker’s pocket book. A practical guide for smokers.
Author: Helmut Hochrain.
Paperback in good condition.
Was part of the John Adler 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.
Austrian Tobacco Museum
Ein fuhrer durch das museum von AUSTRIA TABAK
A Guide through the Museum
Was part of a collection of Pipe Books.
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.
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
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.
This well illustrated book was part of the John Adler Collection and is excellent condition.
Written in French it tells of the Marseille Clay Pipe Industry between 1693-1956
Originally dedicated to Mme Vigne and her daughter Simone, last owners of the Bonnard & Sons Factory.
Author: Maurice Raphael
This Handbook is in written in Dutch.
Author: D H Duco
The Dutch Clay Pipe Handbook of Dating and Determination
The book is in very good condition.
Price: £15 + £5 postage
Nicotiana Tabacum – Georg A Brongers
Hardback Book is in good condition
Price: £15 + £5 postage
Brobergs in the arcade – a piece of Gothenburg history
Written in Swedish
Author Lars O Carlsson
+ £5 postage.
The Christmas Pipe by Richard Carleton Hacker
A Collector’s Celebration of Pipe Smoking at Yuletide
This is a First Edition – a limited printing of which this is 1 of 2,500 copies.
ISBN No. 0-931253-01-2
This book has been personalised as a gift to John Adler and signed by Richard Carleton Hacker.
Condition: Excellent
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
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 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
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.
Smoking Pipes of the North American Indian
Author JCH King
Condition: Good
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
Pipes – Illustrated Pipe Book in Japanese
Previously part of a collection of Pipe Books.
Beautifully illustrated.
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
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
Collecting Antique Meerschaum Pipes – Ben Rapaport
A must for any Meerschaum pipe collector.
The book is well illustrated.
In good condition.
Austria Tabak Die Sammlung Des Osterreichischen Tabakmuseums
Printed in German
Austria Tabak – The Collection at the Austrian Tobacco Museum
A beautifully illustrated book.
Book in excellent condition. The sleeve a little torn.
Published by Pipe Club of Japan on May 26th commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Pipe Club
This book in Japanese was donated to Mr John Adler for his collection by the President of the Pipe Club of Japan
Enclosed is a letter from a previous president of the Pipe Club Mr Barnabas T Suzuki (Honorary President and representative on the Comite International des Pipe Clubs).
The book is in excellent condition, the sleeve has a few blemishes .