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)

In the Spring of 2011 Keeble purchased all the hardback copies of an exciting and thought provoking erotic decorative art title - "Patterns of Desire" by the highly regarded pioneering feminist artist Joyce Kozloff.

Keeble Antiques is one the largest stockists of Taschen titles in the South of England
Highly desirable titles are available in store
witness this business's extensive stockholdings
such as.....


 "Audrey Hepburn - photographs 1953-1966" by Bob Willoughby

Copies of the above Audrey Hepburn title are still available in Langport
Strictly personal shoppers only - real copies for true collectors.
*Audrey Hepburn - Bob Willoughby ISBN 9783836518895 in stock in Langport*

Another eye-catching title from Taschen is New York, Portrait of a City
Time magazine nominated as
The Greatest New York Photo Book ever !
Yes, indeed, a truly great book and selling very well from stock here in
Langport

   
Available from stock, Taschen's very impressive tome - just has to be seen !!
Sadly, due to the current demise of high street retail don't expect to see this
and many other eclectic titles in corporate chain stores.

Time to support the stock-holding independents who give full backing to the major specialist publishers !!!

The recently issued "Fraulein" by Ellen von Unwerth is a cracker

This celebration of our era’s sexiest female icons includes Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Vanessa Paradis, Britney Spears, Eva Mendes, Lindsay Lohan, Dita von Teese, Adriana Lima, Carla Bruni, Eva Green, Christina Aguilera, Monica Bellucci and dozens more.

The dustjacket cover art might be controversial for Taschen's "Paris, Portrait of a City"
what is not in doubt, is that this archive photo book is on a par with the similar New York title. 


        A very large in store stock range at the Langport (Somerset) shop, inc. Taschen 25 titles.

Taschen 25 titles available from stock in Langport

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

Langport Weather (Yeovilton readings)

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

Now available in Langport - ISBN 9788872001745
"Palladio in Venice" (2006) by Alberto Augusto Weissmuller,
from the venerable Italian publishers Vianello Libri
an exclusive, very special, offer price on this sumptuous title.

Fuller details on 'Bin Ends' page 

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***

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Keeble shopfront on Cheapside Langport

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.

See below for Contact Information
 

A quality, friendly and prompt service with fast delivery

Looking for an out-of-print book?     Why not mail us !

 

In Print
Books 

Selected titles...Mabel Lucie Attwell - An Appreciation, published by Chris Beetles being a prime example, excellent value for only £9-99

Out-of-Print
titles 

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

An eye-catching selection of
original photographs - no reproductions - 1880's onwards. More and more collectors are enjoying the great historical value in these early photos.

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

 



Derrick Warren 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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Shopping on the 'high street' retains its fun when a customer has the advantage of such varied physical stockholdings at one's fingertips as compared to the virtual suppliers vague promises.

Just a few examples of current physical stockholdings in Langport all in publisher's original shrink-wrap.

Butler, A.S.G. "Domestic Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens" 9781851491001 ACC  £95.00

"Fashion, a history from the 18th to the 20th century" 9783822827635 Taschen 25 £34.99

Edwards, Ralph (editor) The Dictionary of English Furniture ( 3 vol. lam.  board set )
Reprint from the 1954 edition - first published in 1924/7 updating Percy Macquoid's
classic work published in Edwardian times.   ISBN  9781851493449    £125.00

Ford, Walton "Pancha Tantra" pub Taschen £44.99

D'Hancarville, Pierre-Francois Hugues "The Complete Collection of Antiquities from the Cabinet of Sir William Hamilton" pub Taschen £44.99
(a five star bargain !!!)

Hemenway, Priya "The Secret Code" (Divine Proportion) pub Evergreen £9.99

Jung, C. G. "The Red Book - Liber Novus" pub W W Norton £140.00

Kozloff, Joyce "Patterns of Desire" very desirable h/b pub 1990 £25.00
(erotic exploration through extraordinary watercolour paintings)

Levinson, Orde (ed. + essays) : Jenkins, David Fraser (essays)
"The Prints of John Piper : Quality and Experiment
A Catalogue Raisonne 1923-91"
Third revised and expanded edition - Nov 2010 - £125.  

Neret, Gilles "Henri Matisse Cut-Outs & Jazz, drawing with scissors" Taschen £135.00
 

Ratcliffe, Derek "Galloway and the Borders" New Naturalist 101. pub Collins £45.00

Syson, Luke "Leonardo da Vinci Painter at the Court of Milan" ISBN 9781857094916
Fantastic value at £40.00 (catalogue for current National Gallery exhibition)

Wiedemann, Julius (ed) "illustration Now !" (vol one) pub Taschen £8.99

Support the dedicated specialist independent bookshops who are stockholding stores of delight !!!



KEEBLE ANTIQUES
Cheapside
Langport
Somerset TA10 9PW
 United Kingdom 

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