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Welcome from Geoff Tyson
Shop opening hours
September to March
Tuesday to Saturday
10am to 5.30pm
April to August
Monday to Saturday
10am to 5.30pm
High Street
Books was first opened in 1990. We have in stock approximately
5000 titles as well as various prints, maps and ephemera. Specialties
include travel, local topography, maritime, erotica, history, military.
All callers welcome. Go to the Honiton button to see how to find us.
Also a for (very) brief history of Honiton
We are always
looking to buy books. Give us a call, we will come to you.
As well
as trading from Honiton we regularly exhibit at book fairs. Please email
or telephone and I will give you
my book fair schedule as well as
information about the fairs.
High Street Books is on the
left going east to west. Just opposite the police station. There is
plenty of street parking as well as car parks. Use this link for a
map.
Honiton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Honiton is a town in
East Devon, which is in the county of
Devon,
England. It grew along the line of the
Roman Road of the
Fosse Way - the ancient Roman Road linking
Exeter (Isca
Dumnoniorum) to
Lincoln (Lindum). The location is mentioned in the
Domesday Book as Honetone, meaning a farmstead of a
man called Huna. Honiton is situated close to the
River Otter, 17 miles North east of
Exeter. It became an important market town known for its
lace and its
Honiton pottery. Population about 11,200 at the time of the
2001
Census.
Honiton more than doubled in size between the 1960s and 2005
with most development happening south of the
Exeter to
Waterloo Station (London) railway line. The size of Honiton
in 2005 was approximately 3.2 km².
Further development will be limited as Honiton borders the
East Devon
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) to the south and
the Blackdown Hills AONB to the north and east. AONBs have the
same level of protection as
National Parks of England and Wales which restricts new
developments.
Honiton is popular with antique hunters, boasting over 20
antique shops.
It is also historically renowned for lace making, but no
longer upholds this tradition. There are still indications of
its history, such as "Lace Walk" and the "Honiton Lace Shop".
However, the shop now trades by appointment only and via the
internet. The shop has been converted to a restaurant,
originally named "Merletto" - which is Italian for "lace". The
restaurant has since changed ownership and name.
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Here listed are a books that it
is my intention to bring to the Bath Book Fair.
Prices will range from £5 to £5000. I will be bringing collections on:
Local History and Topography,
Travel & Maritime,
Erotica
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Rubáiyát
of Omar Khayyám.
Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated in
Colour and in Line by René Bull.
Hodder and
Stoughton, no date c.1915. Original decorated brown cloth, gilt
with an elaborate design on the front board in blue and dark
brown. Coloured top fore-edge. Unpaginated. 10 full-page
tipped-in colour plates, 18 smaller colour plates. Line drawings
and decorative borders printed in blue throughout. Inscription
on free endpaper dated 1915.
£300
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THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
RUBÁIYÁT
OF
OMAR KHAYYÁM
Limited edition of 300, this copy not numbered.
Golden Cockerel Press 1938. Edward
Fitzgerald’s translation reprinted from the first edition with
his preface.
. Printed on Golden Cockerel paper made
by Arnold & Foster printed in Perpetua type.Together
with Fitzgerald’s Monk-Latin Version now printed for the first
time. Translations of the Latin and the Persian Originals and a
critical essay by Sir E. Denison Ross. Introduction by Charles
Ganz. 101 pages. Line copper engravings by John Buckland-Wright.
8 plates of which 5 are duplicated (13 in all) and 4 are
signed. Full vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Binding in lovely
condition. Size 32x19cms. Together with 5 additional engravings
signed by the artist, and 2 copies of the prospectus in
folder. The book and folder together in a very attractive
purpose made green cloth slipcase in fine condition.
£2,800
NB. The numbered copies 1-30 have collotypes of Fitzgerald’s
Monk Latin version called for, which are not present here
although the extra 5 engravings are. According to the
prospectus the numbered copies 1-30 were in white goatskin and
signed by Ross, Ganz and Buckland Wright. Nos. 31-300 were
unsigned, with 8 engravings only in a quarter white goatskin
binding. This copy is an exceptionally fine vellum binding, with
the five extra copies of plates and is therefore a unique copy not covered by either
description.
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Two of the five additional
loose signed plates. |
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VERA
By HARRISON
MARKS
A Study of a Beautiful Girl. Kamera Publications
Ltd. London.
£80 |
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STIRRING TIMES
OR
RECORDS FROM
JERUSALEM CONSULAR CHRONICLES
OF 1853 TO 1856
JAMES FINN, M.R.A.S.
C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1878. 2 volumes.
490/485 pages. 2 maps. 2 illustrations. bound in red cloth. some
foxing otherwise in good condition consistent with their age.
£600 |
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Bath
Book Fair 2008
