| Book Mongers 
439 Coldharbour Lane
BRIXTON London SW9 8LN map
tel: 020 7738 4225
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.30 - 6.30.
Book Mongers sell a wide range of new and second hand books including novels, cookery books, music books, thrillers and comics.
A bit of a messy place with a resident dog to boot and no real bargains to be found. Still, good to have a bookshop back in S W London. - Mandalay Bookshop 23.01.12.
Yes there is a measure of disorganisation - the shop is a stranger to the concept of 'alphabetical order' within a degree of categorisation and thematic placing. Irritatingly the stock is, as in so many places, placed two deep on shelves , so one misses the opportunity to scan and move on. The owner is an ex pat American with excellent taste in music and radio tuned to a Boston station (depressing to find so much support for Romney). Excellent little rest area with couch and resident dog v. friendly and an integral part of the considerable charm of the place and to which I was banished when my phone went off - not unreasonably. Worth a detour for the stock and the gems which have to be mined for. - Jon Morgan 05.10.12.
Bookthrift
22 Thurloe Street
South Kensington
KENSINGTON London SW7 2LT map
tel: 020 7589 2916 fax: 020 7589 0522
Open: 7 days 10.00 - 8.00.
Mostly good quality art and history remainders. Next to South Kensington tube station.
Almost always worth a visit! - David Dixit 08.03.12.
British Heart Foundation Books and Music Shop
94 Streatham High Road
STREATHAM London SW16 1BS map
tel: 020 8664 7490
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30, Sunday 11.00 - 4.00.
A very well-organised medium-sized shop with excellent fixtures and fittings, carefully categorised stock, very reasonable prices and a nice friendly atmosphere. It also sells videos, CD's, LP's etc. Highly recommended! - Steve Archer.
Good, frequently changing stock at reasonable prices. Recommended. - trading.ava 05.04.11.
First such specialist BHF shop I've made it to. (Anyone know how many there are? Website isn't easy to search.) Spent £15 on 3 very good art history/travel books. If I still lived nearby, would be a regular. - Chris K 21.05.12.
Although British Heart Foundation have 100s of charity shops, as far as I can tell, only 6 are bookshops - and we have them all listed. - TBG 21.05.12.
Charles Russell
239A Fulham Road
CHELSEA London SW3 6HY map
tel: 020 7351 5119 web
Open: Monday - Friday usually 2.00 - 6.00 but best to ring first..
Rare and secondhand books on architecture and art, maps, and prints.
Chelsea Gallery and Il Libro
The Plaza
535 Kings Road
CHELSEA London SW10 0SZ map
tel: 020 7823 3248
Chris Beetles Ltd
8 - 10 Ryder Street
ST JAMES'S London SW1Y 6QB map
tel: 020 7839 7551
Gallery with small stock of out-of-print art reference books.
Classic Bindings Limited
61 Cambridge Street
PIMLICO London SW1V 4PS map
tel: 0207 834 5554 fax: 0207 630 6632 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 5.00.
Complete sets and individual volumes of rare books and antique books featuring classic bindings published from the 16th to 19th century.
Classic Library
1st floor
533 Kings Road
CHELSEA London SW10 0TZ map
tel: 020 7376 7653
General secondhand books.
Copperfield's
37 Hartfield Road
WIMBLEDON London SW19 3SG map
tel: 020 8542 0113
Open: 7 days. Monday - Wednesday 10.00 - 7.00, Thursday & Friday 10.00- 8.00, Saturday 11.00 - 6.00, Sunday 11.00 - 6.00.
A general stock of about 30,000 books, strong on philosophy, poetry and military history.
Medium sized shop, nice general stock - a bit higgledy-piggledy but none the worse for that....'Bargains Known' and very 'etgow'. - Steve Archer. (etgow. Drifism - easy to get on with. -TBG)
Although there was nothing I collected in stock, this bookshop could take you a very long time to examine. Excellent tennis titles (obviously) and very good on transport. Much else. Worthy of a visit. - Chris Harte 27.06.09.
Friendly and accommodating owners seem to struggle to keep one of South West London's last bookshops organized - there is stock piled up everywhere and, while there are few bargains to be found, the owners are always helpful and pleasant to chat to. Prices a bit on the high side. - Mandalay Emporium 13.04.11.
Daniel Crouch Rare Books
4 Bury Street
ST JAMES'S London SW1Y 6AB map
tel: 020 7042 0240 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 6.00, Saturday by appointment.
Specialist dealers in antique atlases, maps, plans, sea charts and voyages dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Our carefully selected stock also includes a number of fine prints and globes, and a selection of cartographic reference books.
Folios Ltd
193 - 195 Brompton Road
BROMPTON London SW3 1LZ map
tel: 020 7581 2706
Books about the Arab world, the Middle East and Islam.
It is really hard to find the shop easy. There is no signs on the street. But only you must find "French bank" on the street and then this bookshop in the same building with the bank's. 5th flour of this apartment. Very nice and very rich stock on Middle East, Turkey and Islam. - Aytac Yildiz 14.05.11.
Hurlingham Books
91 Fulham High Street
PUTNEY London SW6 3JS map
tel: 020 7736 4363 web
Open: Monday - Friday 9.00 - 6.00.
First editions, rare books, antiquarian books, atlases, maps, children's books and more.
Although mainly paperbacks and hardback novels there were shelves behind the manager which contained some top quality local material. If that is your forte then put your nose around the door. - Chris Harte 27.06.09.
Badly located & looked dead - it was closed - and dishevelled when I tried to visit. - trading.ava 05.04.11.
Looks like this place (situated on a corner) has been divided in two with a large part of the shop going over to a party-organising enterprise. What is left is literally floor to ceiling mostly paper back books (some might say pulp) quite well 'organised' altho at least two deep on most shelves. Step-laddders are liberally provided for those with a mountaineering head on. It is worth burrowing and removing the first layer. I found several 1960/1970 paperbacks of interest. It does need a complete overhaul tho'. Lots of very dead stock and the stiff in the window is very faded and clearly has not moved for some time. Prices reasonable and the manager averagely attentive. (Glued to the Golf on his laptop) Very close to tube (2 mins). Open at the times it said it would be altho I had to take pot luck as its own site has no opening times (only on TheBookGuide did I find them) and repeated efforts to ring first (current debate) whether on mobile or landline were unsuccessful. - JM 24.07.12.
My Back Pages
8 Balham Station Road
BALHAM London SW12 9SG map
tel: 020 8675 9346
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 7.00, Sunday 11.00 - 6.00.
Large general secondhand stock, collectable, and new books.
Just pop in if you are passing. Large stock but nothing for a collector. More in the way of a mish-mash of titles sorted into various categories. - Chris Harte 27.06.09.
The Northern Irish owner is always good for a chat & gossip, sadly the stock is tired, higgledy-piggledy and it is a very long time since I found anything remotely interesting. - trading.ava 05.04.11.
Chris Harte - half the number of s/h bookshops have closed - how many is this arrogant twat personally responsible for. trading.ava - drop in for a chat so I can tell to to Trade Off! I don't want to be in this poncy guide - take us out! - Doug Jeffers 06.10.11.
Mr Jeffers' irate responses don't help him. 2 stores joined as one with tidier, femine fiction and cooking titles nearer the counter. The more masculine non-fiction is rather doubled up on shelves with piles beginning on the floor. Couldn't find any bargains in my wide interests. Sorry. - Chris K. 24.05.12.
Oxfam Bookshop
46 Gloucester Road
KENSINGTON London SW7 4QT map
tel: 020 7 591 0469
Much of a muchness - Roger Allen.
Zilch of interest. - Mandalay Emporium 19.04.11.
Oxfam Bookshop
34 Strutton Ground
WESTMINSTER London SW1P 2HR map
tel: 020 7233 3908
Quite a decent selection that changes regularly, a good choice of biographies/autobiographies and political books. - Mandalay Bookshop 23.01.12.
Oxfam Bookshop
166 Balham
High Street
BALHAM London SW12 9BW map
tel: 020 8 7726816
One of the newest yet undoubtedly worst of all the Oxfam Bookshops; very disappointing stock at outrageous prices. - Mandalay Bookshop 04.02.12.
A small Oxfam books-only shop, next to 2 other charity ones in the high street of busy Balham. - Chris K. 24.05.12.
Peter Harrington
100 Fulham Road
CHELSEA London SW3 6HS map
tel: 020 7591 0220 fax: 020 7225 7054 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00.
First editions and bound sets, voyages, travel, atlases, maps, colour plate and natural history, Illustrated first editions of children's books, fine bindings and fore-edge paintings.
Paradise for the book voyeur. I bought nothing but was treated with great courtesy even with a bored 14 year old in tow. - Loyola 24.04.10.
Robert Frew Ltd
8 Thurloe Place
SOUTH KENSINGTON London SW7 2RX map
tel: 0207 590 6650 fax: 0207 590 6651 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 6.00 Saturday 11.00 - 5.00.
We deal in most areas of antiquarian books with an emphasis on travel, colour plate, illustrated books, atlases, fine literary sets and bindings.
Robin Halwas
9 Cleveland Row
ST JAMES'S London SW1A 1DH map
tel: 020 7930 2542
Russell Rare Books
239a Fulham Road
CHELSEA London SW3 6HY map
tel: 020 7351 5119 e-mail web
Antiquarian, illustrated & bound sets.
Sims Reed
43a Duke Street
PICCADILLY London SW1Y 6DD map
tel: 020 7493 566 fax: 020 7493 5660 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Friday 10.30 - 6.00.
Art reference and fine illustrated books.
Slightly Foxed on Gloucester Road
(Formally the Gloucester Road Bookshop)
123 Gloucester Road
KENSINGTON London SW7 4TE map
tel: 020 7370 3503 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 7.00, Sunday 11.00 - 5.00.
The shop stocks an eclectic but carefully chosen range of old books, a selection of new books and classic reprints from interesting small publishers, and a range of unusual artists? cards. It also provides a showcase for Slightly Foxed: The Real Readers? Quarterly and for its successful limited-edition pocket hardback series Slightly Foxed Editions.
A worthy successor to the Gloucester Road bookshop. Especially good on biography. - Herne 17.04.10.
Good clean stock - very helpful staff - regular repricing of books (downwards!!) - a few real bargains were had on both my last visits. Worth a visit. Sam 11.05.10.
Have found a number of interesting items here - both downstairs and also on the shelves behind the till. Strong on military books. - Mandalay Emporium 19.04.11.
Have picked up a few things here over a few visits - interesting stock and good to browse, nice little shop, also produce an interesting quarterly. But prices tend to be on the high side and despite enjoying visiting, it is one of the few bookshops I'm not surprised to leave empty-handed. - M&O 18.09.12
St. James's Art Books
15 Piccadilly Parade
MAYFAIR London SW1Y 6NH map
tel: 020 7351 5119
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 6.00.
Books on all aspects of art.
Thomas Heneage Artbooks
42 Duke Street
ST JAMES'S London SW1Y 6DJ map
tel: 020 7930 9223 fax: 020 7839 9223 e-mail web
Art reference books, catalogue raisonnés, monographs and exhibition catalogues. It is our policy to stock the most authoritative book on any subject and in any language, irrespective of its being new or second hand.
Wandsworth Oasis Books
17 Trinity Road
Tooting
WANDSWORTH London SW17 7SD map
tel: 020 8682 9813
The prices were pretty high, and they don't accept credit cards, though their stock was quite large, but essentially the same old rubbish. - Mandalay Emporium 26.04.11.
Definitely my last ever visit to this place: the manager was out and when I inquired where the shelf of signed books was (they used to have one), the shop assistant replied "Oh the manager keeps those for himself, as he collects them". - Mandalay Emporium 25.08.12.
World's End Bookshop
357 Kings Road
BROMPTON London SW3 5ES map
tel: 020 7352 9376
Open: 7 days 10.00 - 6.00.
A wide range of titles from as little as £1.00 but with the emphasis on better books.
Since re-opening, all the cheaper stock has been replaced by much more expensive stuff and only the occasional bargain can be found. Still the staff is friendly. - trading.ava 05.04.11.
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