| Bookbarrow (Frank Edwards) 
City Centre Market
Market Square
CAMBRIDGE Cambridgeshire CB2 3QJ map
tel: 01223 424 429
Open: Thursday 9.00 - 4.00.
Large general stock on market stall covering most subjects. Specialising in East Anglian Topography, Esoteric, Art, Natural History,Modern First Editions available at Bookfairs. Attending P.B.F.A. fairs in East Anglia & also the monthly bookfair in Long Melford, Suffolk.
Gone are the days when one could pick up a treasure for a song but this always has a varied stock and adds tone to this agreable market. - PaulP 30.03.12.
Books for Amnesty
46 Mill Road
CAMBRIDGE Cambridgeshire CB1 2AS map
tel: 01223 362496 e-mail
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Charity bookshop.
Occasionally disappointing when one turns up and it is shut in advertised hours, but like most charity shops it is run by volunteers. Stock does not move a great deal but there are gems to be had and prices are reasonable. {Parking is a nightmare anywhere in or around Mill Road and it is worth parking in the Beehive and walking 10 mins thru the old cemetery or the Grafton Centre (Costly) but you can then do the charity shops in Burleigh Street (Oxfam is the only really decent one). - Jon Morgan 06.03.13.
Cambridge Book and Print Gallery
49 Newnham Road
CAMBRIDGE Cambridgeshire CB3 9EY map
tel: 01223 694264 fax: 01223 694264 e-mail web
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Rare books, signed copies a speciality, original prints and drawings and paintings by modern British and international masters. New location on Newnham Road.
G David Bookseller
16 St. Edward's Passage
CAMBRIDGE Cambridgeshire CB2 3PJ map
tel: 01223 354619
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.00.
Secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly literature, illustrated, children's, natural history and fine bindings.
This shop has for long been my delight. Run by several cheery, helpful fellows with a superb range of remainders covering all possible subjects. And an antiquarian section that almost always meets my needs.A bulging carrier bag departure guaranteed! - Mike Cooper 11.12.08.
Wonderful, proper old bookshop. Great range of books, amazingly bargains known. Antiquarian section is delicious to browse in safe in the knowledge that you won't be able to afford anything, yet just occasionally...bargains known. - PaulP 30.03.12.
All the above may be true but this shop is mostly (occasionally interesting) remainders and not cheap either. Worth patronising as Cambridge has almost no decent second hand bookshops left. - Jon Morgan 06.03.13.
Heffers Booksellers
20 Trinity Street
CAMBRIDGE Cambridgeshire CB2 1TY map
tel: 01223 568568 fax: 01223 568591
Open: Monday & Wednesday - Saturday 9.00 - 6.00, Tuesday 9.30 - 6.00, Sunday 11.00 - 5.00.
Now has a secondhand section.
I discovered today that Heffers in Cambridge now have an area of secondhand books. I'd estimate a stock of around 4000-5000 books. - Martin Stallion 22.03.11.
Not a bad section but nowhere near the amount of books shown. Prices are very decent though. It is towards the front left of the shop in the basement. - Jon Morgan 06.03.13.
Hereward Books
17 High Street
HADDENHAM Cambridgeshire CB6 3XA map
tel: 01353 740821
Open: Monday - Saturday, but best to ring first.
General secondhand books, country sports and natural history.
This is a quality bookshop. It has probably the best stock of shooting, fishing, big game hunting, horse racing and country pursuits I have seen on English premises. If these are your interests you must visit. Very highly recommended. - Chris Harte 13.09.12.
Octagon Books
1a Lynn Road
ELY Cambridgeshire
tel: 01353 610244 or 07713 682622 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.30, Sunday 12.30 - 4.30, closed all day Tuesday.
Quite a good selection of reasonably priced books on two floors. - Steve Newman 12.08.09.
NWAD mainly quite expensive stock HB rather than PB within an antiques collectible and record shop. - Jon Morgan 24.01.2012
Oxfam Bookshop
28 Sidney Street
CAMBRIDGE Cambridgeshire CB2 3HW map
tel: 01223 313373 e-mail
Always worth a visit as is the normal Oxfam shop by Magdalen Bridge. Good general stock of books at around the £2-3 mark. - Jon Morgan 05.02.08.
Usual good selection of paperbacks. Non-fiction over-priced. As all books are donated why not price to entice readers, collectors and bookdealers? The books in the Oxfam shop by Magdalen Bridge were more realistically priced and I bought three! - Mary C 03.11.12.
Plurabelle Books
The Michael Young Centre
Purbeck Road
CAMBRIDGE Cambridgeshire CB2 8HN map
tel: 01223 415671 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Friday 9.00 - 4.00.
We have 45,000 second-hand books, some venerable and showing it, others untouched. We specialise in academic books, but there's something for everybody, from the practical to the farcical, bestsellers to rare first editions. We buy and sell books; browsers are welcome, online or otherwise, though it's best to phone before visiting us.
A real gem of a place once I could find a way in. Its on line catalogue is also worth a look but the shelves are creaking with bought in collections and single items and I had scooped up a dozen within the first 20 minutes. Unfailingly helpful and warm - unlike the warehouse at this time of year! - Jon Morgan 05.02.08.
I do find comfort going into a book place and being welcomed with a smile and a chat. This unit on a small business park is full to the brim of treasures but, unlike me, a tall slender person would find the packed shelves easier to search. It really needs a good few hours to examine everything and in my solitary hour I found enough to keep me contented. Well worth a visit. - Chris Harte 20.04.10.
I endorse the warm welcome but the books available for the public to browse are unexciting. The place was an absolute mess including used wine glasses. A good sort out and chucking of at least 50% would help! - Mary C 03.11.12.
RSPCA Bookshop
188 Mill Road
CAMBRIDGE Cambridgeshire CB1 3LP map
tel: 01223 212 644 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly children's. Large stocks of quality secondhand paperbacks. We also sell online and can mail books anywhere in the country. All profits go to support the Cambridge and District branch of the RSPCA.
Not a great stock and not really worth a detour but as the Amnesty shop and a couple of other charity shops are nearby ... Also in Mill Road is an excellent independent cafe with books for sale about 100 yards towards Cambridge city centre from Amnesty Shop. - Jon Morgan 28.12.11.
It is very rare for me to walk into a charity shop and browse in amazement at the holdings seen on the shelves. Quite frankly I found more of interest here than in the town's regular bookshops. The selections were varied and the dates covered from the nineteenth century onwards. Worth visiting. - Chris Harte 13.09.12.
Stock depends on donations as as they are donations, non-fiction was over-priced. I over-heard a discussion about pricing books using the Internet as a guide. This leads to the over-pricing as there are inflated prices there. - Mary C 03.11.12.
The Haunted Bookshop
9 St. Edwards Passage
CAMBRIDGE Cambridgeshire CB2 3PJ map
tel: 01223 312913 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Antiquarian and secondhand, with occasional new. Children's titles, mainly twentieth century. A few local history books, bindings, poetry and literature. We buy selectively in all the above areas and mail to anywhere in the world.
Although there are selections of titles on cookery, fiction and general literature it is the children's section which caught the eye and the ear. The prices tourists were paying for these latter noted books was quite mind-boggling. Expensive is the word. - Chris Harte 13.09.12.
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