| AA1 Books at Windy Hill
(in association with Ming Books)
Unit 3 Duncan Park
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9JD map
tel: 01988 402434 e-mail web
Very large second-hand and new bookshop.
Book Corner
2 High Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9HQ map
tel: 01988 402010 e-mail web
Open: Monday-Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Large general stock on two floors.Specialising in natural history and gardening. Also maintaining a stock of Scottish, fishing,shooting, climbing and much more. Also publish books. We sell art by internationally recognised wildlife artists, and have regular exhibitions of their work.
Changed hands about two years ago! Still specialises in new and secondhand natural history and gardening,but no longer publishes books or has natural history art exhibitions. - Second Nature 01.04.09
Byre Books
24 South Main Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9EH map
tel: 0845 458 3813 e-mail web
Open: Mar - Oct 10.00 - 5.30, Nov - Feb - phone in advance.
Folklore, mythology, storytelling, stage and screen, Scottish and general.
Don't be put off by their name, which means a cowbarn, as this is a small to medium sized, well laid out and friendly shop. Set a garden area behind flats, it has a fairly general selection of mainly reference books. - Jeremy Briggs.
GC Books Ltd Book Warehouse
Bladnoch Bridge Estate
Bladnoch
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9AB map
tel: 01988 402688 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 4.30.
Large warehouse open to trade and the general public. We hold a large stock including History, Theology, Scottish Interest, Literature and Antiquarian.
M.E. McCarty
13 North Main Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9HL map
tel: 01988 402062 e-mail
Open: 10.00 - 5.00.
Small general bookshop covering quite a wide range of subjects.
Much of the stock is ex-library and as such is overpriced. - Second Nature 01.04.09.
Reading Lasses Book Shop
17 South Main Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9EH map
tel: 01988 403266 fax: 01988 403266 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00 & Sunday: Easter to October: 12noon ? 4.00pm
A stock of approximately 20,000 books specialising in women's studies, lesbian & gay studies and social sciences available by visiting the bookshop and by mail order. Online catalogue with abebooks.com.
Also a cafe. The food may be good value, but the book stock is very highly priced. - Richard 29.07.09.
Located in Scotland's "National Booktown", this is the UK's only bookshop specialising in books about women by women. You want a Women's Press title? They've probably got it. The shop also carries a large range of secondhand academic and general titles in a comfortable, friendly atmosphere enhanced by the smell of freshly ground coffee and home-made brownies from the in-house cafe. Truly a mouthwatering bookshop. Accommodation is also available, which is useful as there are NINE other secondhand-book shops within a two-minute radius of Reading Lasses, and others in the surrounding area. - S+S 16.07.11.
The Bookshop
17 North Main Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9HL map
tel: 01988 402499 e-mail web
Scotland's largest second-hand book shop.
Very large ,comprehensive ,quite good quality stock at reasonable prices.Also stocks new Scottish,mainly local,material. - Second Nature 01.04.09.
Good quality stock, prices higher than they should be. Nice to browse in. - PaulP 02.08.11.
The Box of Frogs Children's Bookshop
18 North Main Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9HL map
tel: 01988 402255 e-mail
Two rooms of secondhand children's books.
Second hand and new children's books. Very friendly and understanding staff who made it a pleasure to visit with a lively 21 month old. - Laura.
It looks like an ordinary children's shop on entering and if it was busy I can see why people could be forgiven for assuming that it was not a second hand bookshop. The two rooms of children's books are hidden away at the back and could probably do with a notice for newcomers to realise that they are there. However they have an excellent medium sized selection of most types of children's books from annuals through paperbacks to collectable hardbacks. Box of Frogs probably has as many children's books as the rest of Wigtown put together. - Jeremy Briggs.
The Creaking Shelves Bookshop
12 North Main Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9HL map
tel: 01988 402 902 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.00, Sunday 10.00 - 4.00.
We stock a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction books and have a particular interest in religion and esoteric/occult subjects.
The Old Bank Book Shop
8 South Main Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9EH map
tel: 01988 402111 e-mail
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30, Sundays 12.00 - 5.00.
Now under new ownership our focus will include: fiction, biography, history, politics, international issues, art and design and foreign languages.
Much improved since our last visit.Large very good quality general stock,nicely displayed and at reasonable prices. - Second Nature 01.04.09.
Now probably the best shop in Wigtown. - Richard 29.07.09.
Agree with above, wide range of stock properly priced for Wigtown. - PaulP 02.08.11.
Transformer
26 Bladnoch
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9AB map
tel: 01988 403455 e-mail
General interest and academic secondhand books.
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