| Adrian Harrington Antiquarian Bookseller
64a Kensington Church Street
LONDON W8 4DB map
tel: 020 7937 1465
I have written elsewhere about my visit to this establishment. Best for me to say here: Quality Books, but only think of visiting if you went to the right school and/or are a person of considerable means. - Chris Harte 06.01.10.
Al Saqi Books
26 Westbourne Grove
LONDON W2 5RH map
tel: 020 7229 8543
New & some secondhand books on the Islamic world.
Altea Maps and Globes
35 Saint George Street
LONDON W1S 2FN map
tel: 020 7491 0010 fax: 020 7491 0015 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 6.00, Saturdays by appointment.
Wide range of antique maps of all parts of the world. Celestial charts, sea charts, town plans, atlases and globes from 1477 to circa 1880. Members of ABA, PBFA and IMCoS.
Excellent selection of antique maps, expert and knowledgeable sales assistant, impressed with the quality of their maps. I saw an Ortelius atlas Spanish edition that I would love to own, maybe one day... - Antique Map Collector 09.04.11.
Bernard J Shapero Rare Books
32 St. George Street
LONDON W1S 2EA map
tel: 020 7493 0876 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Friday 9.30 - 6.30, Saturday 11.00 - 5.00.
Rare and antiquarian works, including extensive travel and mountaineering books, colour plate and illustrated, early English printed and modern literature. Our stock comprises over 4000 rare books and over 3000 maps, prints and photographs.
Good modern firsts section upstairs with some uncommon titles/highlights but over the top prices even allowing for what must be substantial overheads. - Loyola 24.04.10.
Bernard Quaritch Ltd
5-8 Lower John Street
LONDON W1F 9AU map
tel: 020 7734 2983 e-mail web
Founded in 1847, we deal in rare books and manuscripts in many fields, including medieval manuscripts and miniatures, early printing, science, medicine, travel, human sciences, arts and architecture, Middle Eastern books and manuscripts, and English and Continental literatures.
Book and Comic Exchange
14 Pembridge Road
LONDON W11 3HL map
tel: 020 7229 8420
Open: 7 days 10.00 - 8.00.
Large stock of general secondhand books & comics.
This is the best shop in London for reasonably priced second hand graphic novels. Also decent arts and sci-fi section. Achieves a high turn over by regularly reducing the prices on the tickets until the book sell- oh that other bookshops would do this! - George Marshall 03.04.09.
Excellent store with a large basement area. Enjoyably gruff owner with some newer 2nd hand SF books on hand. Basement was all mixed up and in no order, but 1st floor was well sorted. - I Baillie 26.04.11.
Great little bookshop. Basement was mixed up but great prices £1.00 or less. Managed to get two books here for £1.50 - absolute bargain. Would have liked more time here to have a good rummage. - SpookyMulder 12.05.11.
Little room to move in this grubby shop with unfriendly staff. Wouldn't bother with it. - Mandalay Emporium 31.05.11
Books for Amnesty
139b King Street
Hammersmith
LONDON W6 9JG map
tel: 020 8746 3172 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 6.00.
Amnesty International UK has 6 bookshops in the UK which raise money to support their work on Human Rights. All sell a wide range of good quality second-hand books. Amnesty International is a movement of ordinary people. Our purpose is to protect humans wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied.
Daunt Books
83 Marylebone High Street
LONDON W1U 4QW map
tel: 020 7224 2295 e-mail
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 7.30. Sunday 11.00 - 6.00.
Travel book specialist.
Has some second hand travel books - some quite unusual ones. Also one of London's most beautiful bookshops with its gallery. - Anthony Davis 27.07.10.
Ealing Books
20 South Ealing Road
LONDON W5 4QA map
tel: 020 8840 1095 e-mail web
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 11.00 - 6.00, most Sundays 10.00 - 1.00.
A general selection of secondhand books - both fiction and non-fiction - covering a comprehensive range of categories. 2 mins. from South Ealing Tube (Picadilly Line) and local parking available.
Foster's Bookshop
183 Chiswick High Road
LONDON W4 2DR map
tel: 020 8995 2768 e-mail web
Open: Tuesday to Saturday 10.30 to 5.30.
Fine books and bindings, children's, illustrated, arts and literature. Pay and display parking at the front of the shop.
Superb. Absolutely stunning quality stock in little more than a room and small annexe. Manager chatty and with considerable knowledge of the trade. Visit highly recommended. - Chris Harte 27.06.09.
Fuller D'Arch Smith Ltd
37b New Cavendish Street
LONDON W1G 8JR map
tel: 020 7722 0063
Garden Books
11 Blenheim Crescent
LONDON W11 2EE map
tel: 020 7792 0777
New & a few older gardening & design books.
Golfiana Gallery
Grays-in-the-Mews
Davies Mews
LONDON W1K 5AB map
tel: 020 7408 1239
Golfiana, Children's and Juvenilia.
Henry Sotheran Ltd
2 Sackville Street
Piccadilly
LONDON W1S 3DP map
tel: 020 7439 6151 fax: 0207 434 2019 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Friday 9.30 - 6.00, Saturday 10.00 - 4.00.
Fine and rare books and prints. Specialist departments, modern first editions, children's, architecture, travel and exploration, natural history, private press, literature, sport and Churchill. Established in 1761 in York we believe we are the oldest antiquarian book business in the world.
This shop gets my back up. Take a 50p book: get it expensively rebound: then flog it to unsuspecting tourists for a small fortune. When I pointed this out, got asked to leave the premises. - Chris Harte 14.04.09.
Lovely surroundings but prices to match. Disappointed there were very few highlights in modern firsts section. - Loyola 24.04.10.
Heywood Hill Ltd
10 Curzon Street
LONDON W1J 5HH map
tel: 020 7629 0647
Antiquarian and children's books.
Hosain Books
25 Connaught Street
LONDON W2 2AY map
tel: 020 7262 7900
Specialists in Central Asia & the Middle East.
Jonathan Potter Ltd
52A George Street
LONDON W1U 7EA map
tel: 020 7491 3520
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 6.00.
Specialist dealers in antique maps, charts, atlases and books on the history of cartography and travel.
Lowendahl Rare Books
34-36 Maddox Street
LONDON W1S 1PD map
tel: 020 7491 1896
Maggs Bros Ltd
50 Berkeley Square
LONDON W1J 5BA map
tel: 020 7493 7160
Antiquarian, literature, travel, autographs and manuscripts.
Loved the stock,the premises and the helpful and knowledgeable staff. Very good Irish section and some scarce modern firsts. The kind of place where you do not resent paying a 25 per cent premium above internet prices for the reassurance of seeing the condition of an expensive item before you purchase. - Loyola 24.04.10.
Marlborough Rare Books Ltd
4th floor
144 - 146 New Bond Street
LONDON W1S 2TR map
tel: 020 7493 6993
Antiquarian, English literature, illustrated and bindings.
Notting Hill Books
132 Palace Gardens Terrace
LONDON W8 4RT map
tel: 020 7727 5988
Mainly remainders and review copies.
Oxfam Books and Music
Marylebone High Street
LONDON W1U 4RB map
tel: 020 7487 3570 web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 6.00, Sunday 11.00 - 6.00.
We are the charity's flagship London bookshop. New and antiquarian books, CDs, vinyl, videos and DVDs all reasonably priced and in good condition. We cater for everyone, from the serious collector to the casual browser; from the classical music lover to the dance enthusiast.
Impressive - one of the best Oxfam bookshops in the country. - George Marshall 06.02.09.
I can confirm that this is Oxfam's flagship book store. Some of the rare stuff was very good indeed while the general books were of a decent quality. You will need at least an hour here. - Chris Harte 06.01.10.
Oxfam Bookshop
1 The Green
Ealing
LONDON W5 5DA map
tel: 020 8567 2152
A wide selection of books, not much under £1.99, but some decent stock. - Mandalay Emporium 12.05.11.
Oxfam Bookshop
170 Portobello Road
LONDON W11 2EB map
tel: 020 7727 2907
Nice little book-shop. Managed to get two books and pay for only one - buy one get one free promotion. Very good! - SpookyMulder 13.05.11.
Oxfam Bookshop
90 Turnham Green Terrace
Chiswick
LONDON W4 1QN map
tel: 020 8995 6059
Situated just outside Turnham Green Underground station. Recently opened but has had stock supplied from Oxfam's central book depot. Usual stuff as expected in such a shop, some things of interest. - Chris Harte 27.06.09.
Bog standard stock attractively presented. Nothing collectable on my visit. Not worth a detour. - Loyola 24.04.10.
Pickering & Chatto
36 St.George Street
LONDON W1S 2FJ map
tel: 020 7491 2656
Economics, literature, science & medicine.
R A Gekoski Booksellers
13 Bathurst Mews
LONDON W2 2SB map
tel: 020 7706 2735 fax: 07831 875202 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 5.30.
Modern literary first editions, manuscripts and pictures
Disappointingly small stock at premium prices. Pleasant and knowledgeable management. - Loyola 24.04.10.
Sam Fogg Rare Books Ltd
15d Clifford Street
LONDON W1S 4JZ map
tel: 020 7534 2100
Sophie Schneideman Rare Books
331 Portabello Road
LONDON W10 5SA map
tel: 020 8354 7365 e-mail
Open: Tuesday - Thursday 11.00 - 4.00, Friday 11.00 - 3.00, Saturday 10.30 - 6.00.
Private Press & illustrated books, binding, food and drink, prints & photography. 3-4 catalogues and 3 shows a year. Talks about food & drink history as well as various aspects of the book arts. Always available by appointment as well as opening times.
Travel Bookshop Ltd
13 Blenheim Crescent
LONDON W11 2EE map
tel: 020 7229 5260
New & secondhand travel books.
Trinity Hospice Bookshop
31 Kensington Church Street
LONDON W8 4LL map
tel: 020 7376 1098
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.30 - 6.00, Sunday 11.00 - 5.00
Small and friendly bookshop in the heart of Kensington: general stock, including CDs, DVDs and vinyl.
Plenty of varied stock, but prices extremely high for the quality/type of book and very little of interest. - trading.ava. 30.03.11.
Fantastic little shop!!!A lot cheaper than Oxfam!!A joy to shop in!!! - Jon 27.07.11.
Tusculum Rare Books
34 -36 Maddox Street
LONDON W1S 1PD map
tel: 020 7409 7894
Vintage Magazine Shop
39-43 Brewer Street
LONDON W1F 9UD map
tel: 020 7439 8525
Magazines, comics & annuals. Claims to have the biggest magazine stock in Europe.
I walked past twice before realising that this semi-porn shop actually had magazines, which I eventually found in the basement. What was there were grossly overpriced and a waste of my time checking for anything of quality. Still, the other shop items opened the eyes of an innocent. - Chris Harte 06.01.10.
William Poole
97 New Bond Street
LONDON W1S 1SL map
tel: 020 7629 8738
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