| Arthritis Research UK Bookshop 
14 Colliergate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 8BP map
tel: 01904 541304
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.30, Sunday 10.30 - 4.30.
A good little charity book shop I'd first visited some while ago is this Arthritis Research one. Seems to be their only specialist s/h bookshop. Well run with 2 older male volunteers when I visited. Spent a tenner on 4 nice non-fiction books. Fiction titles upstairs. It's on the way to Fossgate from the Shambles. - Chris K 12.03.13.
Barbican Bookshop
24 Fossgate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 9TA map
tel: 01904 653643 fax: 01904 653643 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 09:30 - 17:00
Large premises bulging with books. We are recognised as having the best selections in the area on railways, aviation, local books and theology.
Good stock at good prices and well worth a visit. - Andy Overton.
Huge stock - good prices. Bit of a maze but adds to the fun. Especially good Military & Aviation. Really courteous and helpful book buyer who gives very fair prices. - John Williamson 26.03.09.
Bix Books
23 Water Street
SKIPTON North Yorkshire BD23 1PQ map
tel: 07932 972762 e-mail
Open: Wednesday & Friday 10.00 -12.30 & 2.00 - 5.00
Mainly non-fiction - specialist areas, espionage, mountaineering, Watergate, theology, general. Also fiction - classics and modern.
Bloomindales
The Old Library
Market Hall Market Place
HAWES North Yorkshire DL8 3QN map
tel: 01969 666054
Open: 7 days 10.00 - 5.00 (please ring to check winter opening times).
General and varied with lots of categories. Specialising in maps, especially Ordnance Survey. The old library is one room packed with shelves of books, hardly room to move about!
In the much recommended bookshop in Hawes I met the man I never thought I would - someone who made me ashamed for liking books - someone who made me more than that, ashamed for a moment for even having an interest in books ... What an unbelievable moment - the man who owned a secondhand bookshop who would happily charge for browsing. Lord knows the library should be ashamed for their tolerance of anyone who would consider browsing before renting ... am I seriously the only one who thinks this is unacceptable??? - Katherine 02.08.10.
This shop is a proper little old fashioned secondhand book shop selling a good selection of books, maps, postcards, etc. No charge to come in and browse, the owner has given up on that little experiment. A warm welcome from all the staff, always. I should know as I am one of them. Come and see for yourself. PS - The owner can be quite charming too! - Pauline 24.01.2012.
Owner may have given up charging for browsing but charming he is not. I was threatened with being thrown out for spending too much time browsing when I'd barely been in the place five minutes. Won't be back. - Robin 16.04.13.
Books For All
23a Commercial Street
HARROGATE North Yorkshire HG1 1UB map
tel: 01423 561982
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.30 - 5.00.
General stock and children's and illustrated, history and transport.
On the outskirts of the main shopping area, from the street and even on
entering this appears to be a tiny shop albeit stocked to the ceiling
with bookcases. However away from the Police Box like ground floor, up
the steep narrow stairs and you enter a virtual Tardis of books
stretching over two rooms, including quite a selection of Doctor Who
titles. Mainly books with some LPs at the far end, their selection of
children's books is impressive, but should not distract from the sheer
number of books on most subjects. - Jeremy Briggs. 05.11.07.
Excellent ? good stock, sensible prices.- Geoff Hatherick 22.07.08.
A fantastic shop, great selection of children books and very reasonable prices. Horror selection is good and reasonble prices as well. - Sara Pannel 09.10.8.
A good old-fashioned shop! Extensive stocks, floor to ceiling (ladder provided for those hard-to-reach items) and reasonably priced. - Daedalus 29.07.09.
Good bookshop. Plenty of stock. Usually come out with something! Good sections particularly on art and children's books. Also the shop is open when it's supposed to be!! - J.S. 15.02.10.
Excellent shop, some gems to be found at reasonable prices. - Ernest LeClerc 24.02.10.
A very well stocked and reasonably priced shop with a good regular turnover, so well worth the occasional return visit. - Nicholas Pendower 27.04.10.
Now the only proper shop left in Harrogate - always bargains to be found, brilliant biog section, great turnover - sign of a great shop. - Paul P 11.05.10.
Books for Amnesty 
42 Goodramgate
YORK North Yorkshire Y01 7LF map
tel: 01904 541117
Well lit with a noisy wall heater above the door. Lots of dull stock - even more upstairs for a pound each which I avoided. Given the number of proper s/h bookshops and the 2 Oxfam ones, Amnesty may struggle to get good stock here. - Chris K 30.01.12.
British Heart Foundation Books and Music Shop
12a Beulah Street
HARROGATE North Yorkshire HG1 1QQ map
tel: 01423 563245
Just out the lower door of WH Smith and across the road, this is a
medium sized shop covering two floors with a good stock of music and
videos on the ground floor along with books and with even more books
upstairs. - Jeremy Briggs. 05.11.07.
This is an awful shop the people who run are nasty do not go in this shop! - Sara Pannal 17.10.08.
Elmsley Antiquarian and Secondhand Books
Old Fire Station
Borogate
HELMSLEY North Yorkshire YO62 5BN map
tel: 01439 770014
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00, Sunday 12.00 - 5.00.
General secondhand stock, some antiquarian and publisher's remainders.
Agreeably old fashioned shop with good size stock just of market place, worth a visit. - PaulP 02.08.11.
Endeavour Books
2 Grape Lane
WHITBY North Yorkshire YO22 4BA map
tel: 01947 821331
Open: 7 days 10.30 - 4.45.
General secondhand and some antiquarian books.
At one end of the rotating bridge in the town centre beside the Whitby Gazette offices. This medium sized shop is deceptively small when you walk in as the entrance to the back room is hidden behind a section of bookcase, but the books are stacked to the ceiling and every nook and cranny is used. The only second hand bookshop in Whitby but well worth stopping off at. - Jeremy Briggs.
This shop is too expensive - Sara Pannal 17.10.08.
Visited whilst walking the Cleveland Way in June 2011. Surprisingly large with a perfectly decent selection. Worth a visit if you are in town but probably not worth going out of your way for. There are two remainder shops nearby (one better than the other). I also recommend the pie and mash shop round the corner. - Ken Bogle 06.06.11.
Visited this today, as previous comments say, it looks small, but is packed with a good selection of books. Always worth a look if you're visiting this beautiful town. - Jakob Pieterson 17.05.12.
Owner threatened to call police on me after I'd been in the shop less than 5 minutes, on the grounds that my 6 year old son was not old enough to handle Pokemon annuals. Unpleasant & NETGOW. - John Davis 28.08.12.
Fossgate Books
36 Fossgate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 9TF map
tel: 01904 641389
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Two floors of secondhand and antiquarian books covering most subjects: academic, scholarly and popular; the Folio Society a speciality.
Endearingly dingy, the prices are good and the owner is very helpful and interested. - George Marshall 04.02.10.
Friendly, helpful, well stocked. Many less ordinary books. Got the feeling that this is the kind of shop where occasional treasure may be found - although not on this occasion. Well worth a visit! - Sam 09.04.10.
Your review of Fossgate books does not do it justice. Upstairs it has hundreds of Folio society books at good prices and has done for some years. No mention of this specialism in your review! I visited today and have visited many times over the years. - Ken R Smith 26.01.11.
Interesting with a wide range. Strong on politics and film, and yes I did find a tresure for me! - Norman Davies 09.02.11.
A lovely old fashioned shop with a good mix of books and a really friendly owner. Just be careful on the rather uneven stairs upstairs (but the journey upstairs is worth it) - Jakob Pieterson 05.07.11.
He does need to spend some £££s updating the fixtures and fittings. Stairs can only get more treacherous and the lighting and heating on the first floor are poor. Some good books on offer; mostly medium priced. - Chris K 19.01.13.
Called in this weekend as I always do when visiting York - this is what I call a proper secondhand bookshop. Selection of Folio editions gets better and better. Recommend! - Bridget Scurfield 16.02.13.
Grosmont Bookshop
Co-Op Building
Front Street
GROSMONT North Yorkshire YO22 5QE map
tel: 01947895170 e-mail web
Open: 7 days April to October 10 - 5.30, see website for November - March
Specialising in railway titles, bus and tram books, local maps, guides and local history, nationwaide walking guides, military books, plus general fiction, history, biographies, childrens, etc etc. Open whenever the North Yorkshire Moors Railway is running trains, plus other days, see website for opening times and book lists.
Visited a number of times, a huge amount of railway/transport books, and a good selection of other books too. Very friendly owners make this well worth a visit, particularly if the railway is running. - Jakob Pieterson 17.05.12.
Grove Rare Books
The Old Post Office
Bolton Abbey
SKIPTON North Yorkshire BD23 6EX map
tel: 01756 710717 e-mail web
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
A country bookshop in an 18th Century building the on Duke of Devonshire's Yorkshire estate, within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. A wide range of books, but particularly, Yorkshire topography, angling and field sports, art and architecture, British topography, and natural history. Also antiquarian maps and prints.
This bookshop just oozes class and quality. It is one of the finest of its genre and MUST be visited by any serious collector. Both the owner and his son were knowledgable and very pleasant men. The Yorkshire holdings were top of the range as were the field sports section. There were other groupings none of which were anything but worthy of perusal. - Chris Harte 26.10.09.
Janette Ray
8 Bootham
YORK North Yorkshire YO30 5RG map
tel: 01904 623088
Open: Wednesday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Architecture and design, the arts and garden design
An Impressive range of architecture books - particularly strong on postwar modern. The prices are at the high end, as one would expect of a specialist, but the quality is consistently high. - George Marshall 04.02.10.
A superb selection of architectural titles. It is an education to browse these shelves. Charming proprietor. - Simon Jarvis 01.10.10.
Ken Spelman Books Ltd
70 Micklegate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 6LF map
tel: 01904 624414 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.30.
Books on the fine arts, architecture, garden design, literature, history, science & technology, philosophy & very many other areas. In addition to our rare and antiquarian books, we also have a rapidly changing stock of over 40,000 scholarly and interesting books on all subjects. We also hold regular art exhibitions and have a permanent gallery space.
Freezing day and a coal fire burning downstairs, a browser's paradise! - Andy Overton.
The best bookshop I?ve visited in York ? excellent stock, accurately priced - Geoff Hatherick 22.07.08.
Generally good stock (although not as good as several years ago). Prices ok. If you want to sell books forget it - you are likely to get a supercilious reaction 'oh we're not interested' even when you have rung before and been told they will buy! - John Williamson 04.03.09.
A significantly higher quality of stock than when I visited a few years ago, and the arrival of new material has certainly increased with lots to look at. Prices are very competitive, and checking up on a few items on-line on my return home I found them to be consistently lower than for poorer copies listed elsewhere. The chatty staff were very helpful - this shop deserves to survive and I look forward to my next trip up Micklegate. - Harry Peterson 30.09.10.
Agree last comment much improved stock and (importantly) more sensible prices than a few years back. Definitely the best shop in York now with good proprietor and some fine biographies and politics books for me. - Norman Davies 09.02.11.
Lucius Bookshop
37 Fossgate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 9TF map
tel: 01904 640111 fax: 01904 640444 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 6.00.
Rare and collectable; modern first editions, particularly crime and detective fiction; children's and illustrated books. Original art including illustrations; rock and pop memorabilia. Prices from £10. Members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and Provincial Book Fairs Association.
Has moved along to new premises last October. (Much smarter than number 36.)
Mostly expensive collectable fiction: first editions, signed, crime, children's etc. Could here the male present bidding successfully at an auction in the rear. - Chris K 19.01.13.
Mansergh's Secondhand Bookshop
Corner of High Street and Cheapside
SETTLE North Yorkshire BD24 9EX map
tel: 01729 823502 (evenings)
Open: Tuesday & Thursday - Saturday, 10.00 - 12.00 & 1.00 - 5.00.
General stock, including some interesting theology books and second-hand sheet music.
Tiny, but crammed with stock, very friendly and reasonably priced. - Mark 03.03.12.
Market Vaults
St Helen's Square
SCARBOROUGH North Yorkshire YO11 1EU map
Open: Monday -Saturday 8.00 - 5.00.
At no.15, are Ramrod Antiques who have several shelves of books related to shooting, gaming, and fishing. Many of the other vendors there carry some books or ephemera as well. - John Eggeling.
Minster Gate Bookshop
8 Minster Gates
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 7HL map
tel: 01904 621812
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30, Sunday 11.00 -12.30 & 1.30 -5.00.
Books on art and architecture, philosophy, theology, music, travel, history, local guidebooks, from leather binding to paperback. Old prints, maps and engravings are also stocked.
Well worth a visit with an extensive and wide-ranging stock of beautifully presented books. - Andy Overton.
Not as good (as Spelman) but plenty to look through and worth a visit.- Geoff Hatherick 22.07.08.
One of the most picturesque and elegant bookshops in Britain in a tall townhouse overshadowed by York Minster. A wide range of subjects (reasonable prices including good quality remainders) in tiny rooms off a winding stair. - George Marshall 04.02.10.
Well worth a visit, the shop itself a superb house. Remainders and s/h but decent quality and prices. - Norman Davies 09.02.11.
Steep stairs to the basement remainders and the 2 storeys above, but well carpeted and with a good handrail. (Unlike another shop in York.) Treated myself to 3 large art and architecture items. Could have bought more - these were fairly priced heavyweights. - Chris K 18.06.12.
Mrs Lofthouse's Secondhand Book Emporium
2 Queen Street
SCARBOROUGH North Yorkshire YO11 1SH map
tel: 01723 506057
Open: 7 days 10.00 - 5.00.
Large general secondhand stock.
A big shop near the main pedestrian shopping area and close to Doodles. The back is a bit of a warren of shelves and alcoves with books everywhere, but it gives the impression that what you are after will probably be just round the next corner. - Jeremy Briggs.
What can one say of a bookshop owner who tells a teenage customer that she?s never heard of Ann Radcliffe, ?but have a look in ?horror?? - - Geoff Hatherick 22.07.08.
If I was looking for Ann Radcliffe's Gothic fiction, Horror is one of the places I'd look! - Gareth James 12.09.08.
Not really that big and what I was after definitely was not around the next corner. - Nicholas Pendower 27.04.10.
A really nice shop with a nice maze of bookshelves and lots of stock. The owner is incredibly friendly and welcoming. - Jakob Pieterson 07.07.11.
O'Flynn Maps, Prints, and Antiquarian Books
The Red House
1 Duncombe Place
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 7ED map
tel: 01904 414925 & 07909 612603 e-mail
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.30, Sunday 10.30 - 5.30.
We have a large stock of antique maps and prints an a varied stock of books with the emphasis on antiquarian. Our stock of maps & prints is world wide. Large stock of UK maps and prints. Our Book and map room is on the 1st. floor, The Red House corner of Duncombe Place, 100yds from Minster.
Oxfam Books and Music
20 High Street
SKIPTON North Yorkshire BD23 1JZ map
tel: 07519 787529
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00, Sunday 11.30 - 4.30.
A bountiful selection of fiction and non-fiction titles to whet the appetite of all readers. Find us across the road from Skipton's Town Hall on the High Street.
Oxfam Books and Records
3 Montpellier Parade
HARROGATE North Yorkshire HG1 2TJ map
tel: 01423 565497
Just down the hill from Betty's Tearooms, from the street and on the
ground floor this is a normal Oxfam shop, but go up the stairs and you
are into the Oxfam Books and Records shop. Split over two rooms with the
smaller room having music, videos, postcards and even some cigarette
cards, the main room has a good selection of well laid out books. The
book stock is perhaps slightly more upmarket than the Harrogate BHF
charity book shop. - Jeremy Briggs. 05.11.07.
Oxfam Bookshop
69 Low Petergate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 7HY map
tel: 01904 652749
Like all Oxfams overpriced but worth a look with a seeming fast changing stock. - Norman Davies 09.02.11.
Never found anything here. Staff seem to be general volunteers, pleasant but not particularly knowledgeable about books. If busy, give this a miss in favour of the city's real bookshops. - Mark 08.06.12.
Oxfam Bookshop
46 Micklegate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 6LF map
tel: 01904 652140
Definitely a superior Oxfam bookshop spread over two adjoining shops and just a few doors down from the venerable Spelman's. - George Marshall 01.04.09.
I walked in, I looked at the prices, I walked out. - The Wanderer. 18.08.09.
Like all Oxfams seemingly overpriced. However an excellent selection in many areas and I did obtain a couple of decent finds. - Norman Davies 09.02.11.
Ramrod Antiques
15 Market Vaults
SCARBOROUGH North Yorkshire YO11 1EU map
tel: 07818 470123
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00.
Books on hunting, shooting, fishing and firearms.
Richmond Books
20 Trinity Church Square
RICHMOND North Yorkshire DL10 4QN map
tel: 01325 377332
Open: 7 days 9.30 - 4.30.
Military and general history, topography, travel, children's, SF, fantasy and crime fiction.
Good general stock with a reasonable quantity of military titles. Dealer advises he will buy back from you at 50% of the selling price. - John Hale.
Very disappointing.- Geoff Hatherick 22.07.08.Not really worth a special trip, with very little in the way of interesting stock. Given its location I would agree that it remains very disappointing. - Nicholas Pendower 14.08.12.
"Disappointing"? Only if you expect too much. Small shop with quality general stock. No junk. Reasonably priced. I'm surprised at the negativity. - Lionel 05.10.12.
Robin Hood's Bay Bookshop
1 Chapel Street
ROBIN HOOD'S BAY North Yorkshire YO22 4SQ map
tel: 07811 455247 e-mail
Open: 7 days 11.00 - 4.00 from Easter to October, otherwise weekends only.
We buy and sell good quality second hand books, and particularly those by Leo Walmsley.
There may still be a couple of other places selling secondhand books during the summer - current status unknown. - TBG 26.04.11.
St Pauls Bookshop
5 King's Square
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 8BH map
tel: 01904 541729 fax: 01904 658790 e-mail
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.30.
New and secondhand Christian books, but also local history, music, architecture, and philosophy.
Stone Trough Books
51 Walmgate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 9TY map
tel: 01904 670323
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30.
Small general stock and literature.
Moved to this address 01.07.09. TBG
Taikoo Books Ltd
46 Bootham
YORK North Yorkshire YO30 7BZ map
tel: 01904 641213
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 5.30.
Books on Africa and the Orient.
The Bar Bookstore
4 Swan Hill Road
SCARBOROUGH North Yorkshire YO11 1BW map
tel: 01723 500141
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.30 - 5.00.
General stock, including history, travel, literature, natural history and A. E Houseman.
Closed the day I was in Scarborough but although it is very close to a car park I would recommend printing out the location map as it is in a lane off a back street and not overly obvious. - Jeremy Briggs.
Closed on the day I was in Scarborough too and didn't look as if much went on there at the best of times. - Nicholas Pendower 27.04.10.
Quite difficult to find but well worth a visit. 2 book rooms and a landing area (it's on the first floor) with some interesting stock. - Bookworm 27.04.10.
The trick is to go on a day when they're open. Excellent antiquarian/quality stock - not for tatty paperbacks to read on the beach. - Frogstopper 02.08.10.
This shop is well worth a visit, good general stock but I found some nice unusual items, reasonably priced.The owner was very helpful. Although not easy to find, the interior is far more interesting than the exterior suggests. - John Edwards 28.06.11.
The Bookshelf
6 Victoria Road
SCARBOROUGH North Yorkshire YO11 1SD map
tel: 01723 381677 e-mail web
Open: Monday -Saturday 10.00 - 5.00. (October - June can vary, check times)
Specialising in art and design.
Scruffy stock in a scruffy shop - Bookworm 13.04.10.
Very helpful proprietor, who was most apologetic about the general state of the bookshops in Scarborough, but sadly the stock reflected the disappointing nature of all the bookshops in the town. I'm afraid I won't be making a special trip to that part of Yorkshire again in a hurry - very sad! - Nicholas Pendower 27.04.10.
Small stock but excellent for art/design, literature and history. Not in the slightest a scruffy shop. - Frogstopper 02.08.10.
The Tadcaster Bookshop
17 Bridge Street
TADCASTER North Yorkshire LS24 9AW map
tel: 01937 832003 e-mail
Open: Monday to Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Small local bookshop selling modern fiction and some none fiction in paperback. Good stock of crime, westerns, biographies, science fiction an film & TV tie in's.25,000+ paperbacks in stock. Collector and dealer in vintage UK paperbacks always looking for Pearson's Westerns.
Treasure & Relish 
10 Studley Road
HARROGATE North Yorkshire HG1 5JU map
tel: 01423 531 773 e-mail web
Open: By appointment only.
New & Secondhand Books - A lot of Arts related. Also, prints & pictures. Order online from our site.
York Modern Books
The Bull Centre
STOCKTON-ON-THE-FOREST North Yorkshire YO32 9LE map
tel: 01904400331 fax: 01904400331 e-mail
Open: Wednesday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Modern first editions; illustrated books, private press, 20th British art and history. Book Room open to the public, but ring first to save disappointment.
Yorkshire Quality Paperbacks
1 Park Street
PICKERING North Yorkshire YO18 7AJ map
tel: no phone number
Open: 7 days a week 10.00 - 5.00.
Mainly paperback fiction, some children's, some hardback. Reasonable prices. Tom O'Reilly 27.09.08.
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