You have reached the homepage of Keeble Antiques Antiques books etc web site trading from a roomy bookshop in the historic English market town of Langport on the Somerset Levels. A broad selection of quality new, secondhand and antiquarian books are always to hand.
Please click here for list of Somerset titles - new, special offers, and secondhand - available from stock
Secondhand offerings include the first 24 issues of Somerset Folk series (1922-6), contemporary bound in 6 vols
&
"The Place-Names of Somerset" by Rev James S (Samuel) Hill, B.D., - ltd. editon (1914)
Signed copies of the recently published "Postcards from the Past : Somerset Pubs"
edited by Andrew Swift & Kirsten Elliott, Akeman Press, £8.50
as well as
"All Roads Lead to France : Bath and the Great War"
Andrew Swift, Akeman Press 2005, £30.00
available from stock
Recently arrived in stock is "Somerset Follies" by Jonathan Holt (Akeman Press) £10.00
Keeble Antiques are an owner-member of TomFolio.com - the bookdealer's co-operative listing site
Langport Bookshop News page helps to convey ongoing events :
the shop interior still retains olde worlde charm with traditional furnishings
Please click here for views of the surrounding Somerset Levels area
Why not browse some books from our "special reserve" stock
This listing sheet is regularly amended and edited
These are exciting times within the independent booktrade : the public have become increasingly
disillusioned with the central stocking controls of the corporate bookchains and their heavy reliance upon a
few selected bestsellers. Discerning customers appreciate the very personal and individual attention which
is offered by the quality independent bookshops. This website only lists books which are in the physical
stock : independent bookshops are not merely merchandisers : to this end, Keeble Antiques are major
buyers of publishers back-list "bin ends"- many of these titles are exclusive to the Langport shop.
Currently Keeble Antiques offer special prices on monographs about the following marine artists
Charles Brooking - George Chambers - Peter Monamy - Dominic Serres
***Recently added to the on-line inventory is a selection of large Print titles***
If you are a small business owner, or know anyone in England who is, I would suggest that you read the
following page about Small Business Rate Relief
Keeble Antiques book website.
This is no mere catalogue listing but rather an evolving carousel
Pages are updated on a daily basis. This is very much a live site.
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In Print |
Selected titles...Mabel Lucie Attwell - An Appreciation, published by Chris Beetles being a prime example, excellent value for only £9-99 |
Out-of-Print |
Uncommon and scarcer titles from across a broad spectrum..desirable Baedeker and Murray's guides, architecture, art, angling, country pursuits, geology, horse racing, coaching and driving as well as antiquarian and travel and topography. All very competitively priced......many collectable copies |
Bin Ends |
A small selection; publishers remainders, providing excellent value for money. Quality printings in many instances with vivid true colour illustrations. |
Cards etc Photos |
Highlighted are such as a 1933 Club Cigarette card album with 265 striking cards about the Zeppelin. View
also postcards (deltiology) and trade cards inc.Leibig chromolitho trade cards |
Maps |
Never has interest in cartography been as great. In this high tech age we appreciate the great mapping skills of the likes of John Speed. A small selection of county maps, as well as a Sherborne Plan from 1814 which Keeble Antiques republished as a 200 copy limited edition in December 2000
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On Friday morning November 4th 2005, local author Roger Evans was here signing copies of his Somerset dialect book "Don't Tell I, Tell 'EE" (Countryside Books, £6.99).
The signing session was a great success with customers travelling from some distance to obtain copies. A special word of thanks to Roger for making himself available on the morning of this year's Bridgwater Carnival, of which he is a keen supporter.
Keeble is pleased to stock the following 'old favourites' also written by Roger Evans - "Blame it on the Cider" (now reprinted) ", "Somerset Tales of Mystery and Murder" , "Somerset Forgotten Heroes"and "Adventurous Pub Walks in Somerset". A few copies are still available of "Blame it on the Vicar" published by Halsgrove Press at £7.99.
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Copies of "Somerton, Ilchester, and Langport in old photographs" collected by Gerald Gosling and Frank Huddy, originally published in 1993 by Alan Sutton Publishing have now arrived at Cheapside. This 2006 reprint is exclusive to Keeble and priced at £12.99 - there has already been substantial interest from "locals" : Curry Rivel, Aller, Hambridge, Huish and Kingsbury Episcopi, Keinton Mandeville and the Charltons also feature (160pp and approx 300 b/w archive photos, mostly half-page). Further details on this website's New Books pages.
On Friday June 9th 2006, author Derrick Warren was here in Cheapside Langport to sign copies of his recent book "Curious Somerset", published by Sutton Publishing at £12.99. A total of 105 remarkable and less well-known features of Somerset - curious and unusual buildings, objects and landscape features - are detailed within, with photograph (both new and archive) as well as map and location details. Derrick Warren spent his working life with Ordnance Survey, that combined with his interest in industrial archaeology and local history has helped to ensure that "Curious Somerset" is a very welcome addition to the local bookcases.
Derrick's latest book is "Curious Devon" published in Feb 2008 by The History Press (£12.99) : copies are available
from stock.
Derrick Warren also signed a few copies of "James Gillingham, Surgical Mechanist & Manufacturer of Artificial
Limbs" (2001 - £11.95) : further details on this website's "new books" page
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In order to highlight the manner in which South Somerset District Council are endangering the viability of Langport businesses, as well as
upsetting their residents a campaign has been launched
" Keep Free Car-Parking in Langport "
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