| Albion Books 
Bookroom
The Merchants House Antique Centre 10 Corn Square
LEOMINSTER Herefordshire HR6 8LR map
tel: 07818 296279 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
General secondhand books.
The sort of general titles to be expected in an Antiques Centre. Average but worth a visit if you are in the town. - 29.10.12.
Very small stock - about five bookcases. - Mark 10.11.12.
Castle Hill Books
12 Church Street
KINGTON Herefordshire HR5 3AZ map
tel: 01544 231195 (mornings only) fax: 01544 231161 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Friday 10.30 - 1.00, Saturday 10.20 - 1.00 & 2.00 - 4.00.
How lovely to enter a good old-fashioned bookshop and be greeted with a smile and a welcome from an owner who knew his stock. Many different sections some of which contained numerous rare titles. The books on local and regional history covered all parts of the country and were wonderful to browse. I found my new treasures in the basement. A visit is recommended. - Chris Harte 17.08.10.
This shop is a real dichotomy. The stock on two floors is top rate, but the prices !! I purchased five books at well below the odds and was then asked London-plus prices for idle pieces of ephemera. Most odd. - R S Cavendish 29.10.12.
David Thomas Motoring Books
Tudor Yard
Lawnside Road
LEDBURY Herefordshire HR8 2BZ map
tel: 01531 636313 fax: 01531 636313 e-mail web
Open: Usually Monday - Friday 9.30 - 2.30, but please phone ahead if travelling as I may be away at a show or an auction.
Motoring and motor racing books, sales brochures, automobilia, ephemera. Mostly out-of-print, some new. Items bought.
Leominster Books
Book Room
The Secondhand Warehouse and Antiques Centre New Street
LEOMINSTER Herefordshire HR6 8DR map
tel: 01568 614114 e-mail
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30.
On the first floor of this large Antiques Centre. A good selection of secondhand and antiquarian books on all subjects. New stock added regularly.
Quite a good selection on the first floor. All in category order with a number of shelves of old children's books. - Chris Harte 29.10.12.
Well organised, well lit and stocked with an interesting mix of old and modern books at reasonable prices, even some sheet music. Handy for the car park and free coffee too. One not to miss. - Laura 29.10.12.
Very small stock. About half a dozen bookcases. - Mark 10.11.12.
The customer above must have missed the book room and only visited one of the antique dealers on the ground floor of the Centre who carries a small stock of books. Leominster Books is on the first floor (up the main staircase by the cash desk) and has a substantial stock of several thousand books in considerably more than half a dozen bookcases! - Simon, Leominster Books 14.11.12.
Matthew Nutt Books
Minster House Antiques Centre
34 Broad Street
LEOMINSTER Herefordshire HR6 8BS map
tel: 01568 615505 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00, Sunday 11.00 - 4.00.
Room full of books within Minster House Antiques Centre. Subjects include antiquarian and collectable, transport, militaria, art, herefordshire. Large amount of new stock added monthly
Limited stock but remarkable range of accessible antiquarian titles. Seemed quite pricey but might have the one book you need ? - Norman Davies 24.04.10.
Absolutely magnificent, both on the ground and second floors.The quality of the antiquarian books was a treat I never expected. I spent three hours sifting through the offerings before buying a number of them, after which my wife purchased some from her interests. WWAD. - Chris Harte 29.10.12.
One room of miscellaneous cheap stock in a conservatory, one room of antiquarian, including quite expensive vintage photo albums. No real general stock or modern literature. NWAD. - Mark 10.11.12.
Oxfam Books and Music
36 Broad Street
HEREFORD Herefordshire HR4 9AR map
tel: 01432 279527
Can't comment as it was 'closed for staff training 9.30-12.30' on the Friday morning we were in Hereford. - Alastair Palmer 29.06.09.
Typical Oxfam. Overpriced, boring, and the little quality stuff priced by an optimist with an Abe Books fixation, not realising that they are still for sale on ABE at those prices because nobody wants them at those prices. - The Wanderer. 30.10.09.
Miserable stock, eye-watering prices, weirdly conceited staff. A truly dismal experience. - The Dikler 30.11.10.
STOP PRESS: Opening hours are becoming erratic due to 'staff shortages', but at least the prices are holding up: a 1926 copy of Fowler's Modern English Usage without the dj? £25.00. Hurry, hurry! - 1torygloom 16.03.11.
Pleased to say that this time when bringing in 3 large boxes of books for donation, I was greeted by a very pleasant & polite middle-aged gentleman who was very grateful for them. On the previous occasion(at least a year ago) when donating a box of books, they were sniffed at for not being good enough. Not eveyone donates first editions of rare books. Well done Oxfam for getting rid of the arrogant staff! - La Boheme 12.05.11.
Ross Old Books
51 and 52 High Street
ROSS-ON-WYE Herefordshire HR9 5HH map
tel: 01989 567458 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00, and Bank Holidays 11.00 - 5.00.
A traditional second-hand and antiquarian bookshop with something for everyone, we hope. Our '£3 and under' room is particularly popular! We also have a large stock of books on art, antiques and collecting and a good range of Folio Society editions.
Under new ownership - now run by Chris & Carole Lowndes, late of the Chichester Bookshop. - TBG 01.10.08.
The picture perfect old fashioned bookshop for a country market town - the cobbled lane, old oak shop front, the handpainted gilded sign, the bell on the door. And it has good and wide ranging stock with reasonable prices to boot. Well worth a detour - George Marshall 16.09.09.
The stock on the shelves was not quite what I had expected to find. This is not a criticism as I found lots of good material but the build-up to my initial visit had been one of anticipation as others had told me of an antiquarian heaven. Having said that, what I did purchase was most acceptable. - Chris Harte 31.12.09.
I cannot recommend this shop highly enough - clean and tidy, well organised, clearly labelled shelves, good quality stock at extremely fair prices. Better than anything I've found in Hay. WHL - 06.06.11.
The best general stock I've seen anywhere, and all so neatly arranged. Prices below average. They have a fabulous bargain room as well. - Waverley 19.04.12.
Agree with all the previous comments. Good quality, reasonable prices, pleasant owner. - Corso 11.09.12.
The New Strand
Church Street
EARDISLEY Herefordshire HR3 6PW map
tel: 01544 327285
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 8.00, closed Tuesdays and in January.
20,000 secondhand books on all subjects.
A bit jumbled but there are treasures to be found if you look hard enough. - Chris Harte 01.04.09.
I can't think what one would call this place ... it's a teashop, a pub, a hotel and bookshop all piled on top of each other. It is extremely eccentric and rambling, and there are indeed a large number of books here piled up all over the place and stuffed into an annexe. Worth a visit for the sheer oddness of it. - George Marshall 23.09.10.
Definitely worth a detour,very old fashioned,very variable stock.Take kneeling pads and a headtorch. There should be more shops like this!! - Corso 11.09.12.
This is one of the most eccentric bookshops it has ever been my pleasure to visit. The stock is sort of categorised but like the above reviewer I needed to borrow a large torch to look into the crevasses'. What I found was excellent and I completed my search just as the battery faded. From the cafe side purchase of jars of the home-made raspberry jam should be compulsory. - R S Cavendish 29.10.12.
The Rare Book Shelf 
78b The Homend
LEDBURY Herefordshire HR8 1BX map
tel: 01531 640074 e-mail
Open: Phone before travelling.
I specialise in modern first editions but I also have a growing stock of general fiction and non fiction in most areas, as well as poetry. A lot of my stock is older and scarcer than what one might expect to encounter in a shop selling newer books. I also maintain an active selling presence on the internet.
Quite limited stock but some goodies, mainly first editions and some more general. Worth a visit if in the area. - Norman Davies 10.11.12.
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