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AboutSonny Ideker, Bookseller.
A lifetime's collection of rare books, fore-edge paintings and fine bindings, sold in person from the shelves of City Antiques in Historic Roswell, Georgia — and now, book by book, online.
The bookseller
Sonny Ideker has been selling and collecting antique books for more than twenty-five years. Before the books there were aeroplanes: twenty years as a pilot in the United States Air Force, then a career as a commercial airline pilot. He is assisted in the shop by Steven Martin, "That Rare Book Guy".
The collection
More than five thousand titles, most of them printed before 1900: over fifteen hundred in English, with substantial holdings in French, Latin, German and Italian — literature in fine leather, illustrated and colour-plate books, natural history, Americana, religion and theology, and one of the larger holdings of fore-edge paintings offered by a single bookseller in the American South. The catalogue on this site is being added to as fast as we can photograph and describe; if you cannot find a title you are looking for, write to us — we keep a want list.
How we describe books
Every book is photographed in the shop in its own light. Descriptions state edition, binding, collation where it has been completed, and every defect, repair or replacement we are aware of. Prices are stated in the open, in US dollars. Where a written condition report has not yet been prepared, the record says so, and one is supplied on request before any sale.
Where to find us
Inside City Antiques, 700 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, Georgia 30076 — by appointment and by chance. Visit & contact →