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24 Long Street
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE Gloucestershire GL12 7BT map
tel: 01453 844 365 (after 6pm)
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.30.
Great selection of books including, the sea and ships, old military books, children's, collectables, ephemera, and much more. Also small furniture and lamps.
Attic Books
14 St James Street
CHELTENHAM Gloucestershire GL52 2SH map
tel: 01242 255300
Open: Monday - Saturday 12.00 - 4.30.
Small stock of interesting and collectable secondhand books.
Nice cosy shop with an owner who knew quite a bit about his stock. Various antiquarian books amongst the rest and well worth a visit if nearby. - Chris Harte 31.12.09.
Excellent small shop packed with good value books on most subjects. - Norman Davies 24.04.10.
Larger stock than I expected from the entry and comments. Those interested in the excellent non-fiction sections will find a large overflow on the first floor as well as the fiction collection. Prices are reasonable and the owner very helpful, but you need to pay by cheque or cash. There is a long-stay car park virtually opposite the shop. - Geoffrey Warner 18.07.11.
Bookworm
150 High Street
TEWKESBURY Gloucestershire GL20 5JP map
tel: 01684 438385 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.00.
Bookworm is a charity shop specialising in second-hand and antiquarian books, music, CDs, DVDs and sheet music.
British Heart Foundation Bookshop
25 Winchcombe Street
CHELTENHAM Gloucestershire GL52 2LZ map
tel: 01242 222425
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00, Sunday 12.00 - 4.00.
Donated books, CDs & videos.
British Red Cross Bookshop
200 Bath Road
CHELTENHAM Gloucestershire GL53 7NE map
tel: 0124 257 5732
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 4.00.
Donated books, CDs & videos.
Better than one would think and unbelievably cheap. - George Marshall 06.02.09.
One of the cheapest but best organised charity bookshops we have seen. Large stock, variable but at that price... - Norman Davies 24.04.10.
Christopher Saunders 
Kingston House
NEWNHAM-ON-SEVERN Gloucestershire GL14 1BB map
tel: 01594 516030 fax: 01594 517273 e-mail
Open: Monday - Friday 9.00 - 5.00 by prior appointment only.
A large stock of books and memorabilia on cricket and other ball sports. Catalogues published.
Cirencester Antiques Market
The Corn Hall
Market Place
CIRENCESTER Gloucestershire GL7 2NW map
tel: 0171 263 6010
Open: Friday 9.00 - 3.00.
Three bookstalls offering art, fashion, photography and general secondhand books. TBG.
Cirencester Arcade
Market Place
CIRENCESTER Gloucestershire GL7 2NX map
tel: 01285 644314 e-mail
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00, Sunday 11.00 - 5.00.
A small room of cheaper general secondhand books, has recently been joined by another bookseller with a small selection of older books. - TBG.
Two book areas within antiques rooms. Disappointingly ordinary and rather expensive. - Norman Davies 24.04.10.
Cornell Books
The Wheatsheaf
132 High Street
TEWKESBURY Gloucestershire GL20 5PD map
tel: 01684 293337
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.30 - 5.00. Also Bank Holiday Mondays and occasional Sundays 12.00 - 4.00.
Medium-size general stock with an emphasis on topography, children's books and O.S. maps.
Courtyard Books
Unit 5
Tarlings Yard Church Road
BISHOPS CLEEVE Gloucestershire GL52 8RN map
tel: 01242 674335 fax: 01242 674335 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.00.
Good selection of new and second books, books ordered, free book searches undertaken. We exchange National Book Tokens. An extensive range of Jazz CDs and books. We attend many Jazz Festivals including the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. We have a limited range of Art supplies and music books.
Dive-In
Lecture Hall
The Village
WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN Gloucestershire GL14 1PA map
tel: 01452 760124 fax: 01452 760590
Open: Monday - Friday, but please ring first to check.
General secondhand stock with a good travel section.
Draycott Books
1 Sheep Street
CHIPPING CAMPDEN Gloucestershire GL55 6DS map
tel: Shop - 01386 841392, Home - 01386 59352
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 1 0.00 - 1.00 and 2.00 to 5.00. In summer also open most Sundays.
Medium-size secondhand and antiquarian stock.
I will always remember finding a very limited edition book (published in 1916) in this shop on a previous visit. I still get that tingle of excitement when going through the doors of lovely old premises. Varied stock which needs time to survey. The owner told me of his titles in a lock-up store: they sounded top value. - Chris Harte 31.12.09.
Small and a little unkempt, but this is a good and friendly bookshop - decent on local interest, history, kids etc. and with a gentle turnover of stock that ensures you'll always come up with something. - Neil Goodlad 10.12.12.
Evergreen Livres
2 Talbot Court
The Square
STOW-ON-THE-WOLD Gloucestershire GL54 1BQ map
tel: 01451 832253
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.30 - 5.00, closed Wednesday.
6000 (was 3,500) books in stock, Son of Drif can't count or estimate. All subjects especially Batsford Books. All major cards accepted.
A very helpful owner who showed me around a neatly set out shop. General stock but little antiquarian. - Chris Harte 31.12.09.
Needs more stock! I didn't count them but there's never 3,500 books in here. How anyone can sell enough books to make a living from a stock this small is beyond me. Small readers/collectors stock. - Son of Drif 19.05.10.
Actually we do make a living perhaps due to our engaging personalities, knowledge and pricing policy. - Evergreen Livres 24.08.10.
An excellent bookshop; an extremely pleasant lady owner; books sensibly priced. A positively charming experience whilst I was waiting to go to the races. - Ray Quested 22.11.10.
I was very impressed by the carefully thought out selection, reasonable prices, and charm of the owners. Another 'favourite' to put on my list. - Jane Jones 31.05.11.
Now have over 7500 books. Great selection, reasonable prices, friendly helpful owners. - Ocker 23.08.11.
A lovely shop with a wonderful collection of books and charming owners. A good thing there was no armchair to curl up in or I would be there still! A must-visit for all booklovers. - Posy 05.11.11.
Hi Posy,
there are now chairs on both floors for browsers, take as much time as you wish! - Nick and Stella, Evergreen Livres 03.03.12.
Inprint
31 High Street
STROUD Gloucestershire GL5 1AJ map
tel: 01453 759731 fax: 01453 759731 e-mail web
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
'Immensely attractive style ... A lovely atmosphere ...' (Drifs Guide 1991). Our stock includes books on the fine, applied & performing arts, photography, cinema, natural history & gardening, transport, history and Gloucestershire titles. Also cookery, childrens, illustrated, fine bindings, maps, prints, ephemera and posters. Interesting items purchased but please ring first.
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I ate until full, delicious! - The Book Glutton.
The sort of shop a book-fiend would want as a living room. - Adam Horovitz 29.10.08.
Keogh's Books
Market Street
NAILSWORTH Gloucestershire GL6 0BX map
tel: 01453 8339221 web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Book room with interesting secondhand and some antiquarian books. - TBG.
Small shop/room good quality s/h particularly topography and local interest. Friendly owner. - Norman Davies 24.04.10.
Lechlade Antiques Arcade
5-7 High Street
LECHLADE Gloucestershire GL7 3AD map
tel: 01367 252832 web
Open: 7 days 10.00 - 5.00.
One dealer with a small bookroom.
There is one bookdealer with a small room of reasonable mixed stock. Worth a look while in Lechlade. - Eve Magee. 22.06.12.
Matthew Nutt Books
Cirencester Arcade
25 Market Place
CIRENCESTER Gloucestershire GL7 2NX map
tel: 01285 644214 (Antiques Centre), 07813705 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00, Sunday 11.00 - 5.00.
Unit within Cirencester Arcade antiques centre. Selection of antiquarian and collectable books. Subjects include Gloucestershire, natural history, art & antiques, childrens, leather bindings, ephemera etc. New stock added at least every two weeks.
Moss Books
8 & 9 Henrietta Street
CHELTENHAM Gloucestershire GL50 4AA map
tel: 01242 222947
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Secondhand and collectable books.
A wonderful, slightly chaotic second hand shop with a large and up to date stock that is pushing the limits of the space available. Generally well organised despite piles of books spreading over the floor. The history section is particularly good. Prices are very reasonable. - George Marshall 06.02.09.
Good quality books everywhere, currently at half price. Well worth a visit - John Bacon 15.07.09.
Books piled everywhere and a poor flustered oriental girl trying hard to make sense of mumbled requests from potential purchasers. I gave it half an hour but the muddle was so great I will have to return once someone has had a good spring-clean. - Chris Harte 31.12.09.
The shop is still chaotic, mainly because it has far more books than shelf space. If you are willing to sift through the piles on the floor and look at both rows of books on most of the shelves, however, you will find it very worthwhile. Just allow yourself plenty of time! - Geoffrey Warner 18.07.11.
Oxfam Bookshop
31 Cambray Place
CHELTENHAM Gloucestershire GL50 1JP map
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Oxfam Bookshop
7 West Market Place
CIRENCESTER Gloucestershire GL7 2NH map
tel: 01285 658726
Hideously expensive, and they get their books for nothing! They had Ladybird books in the window at £20.00, even more expensive than Cheltenham.- Ocker 23.08.11.
Paper Moon Books
Durham House Antiques Centre
Sheep Street
STOW-ON-THE-WOLD Gloucestershire GL54 1AA map
tel: 01451 870404 e-mail
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00, Sunday 11.00 -5.00.
A small small stock of fine leather bindings. Poetry, English literature, Victorian family bibles, prayer books, A&C Black's watercolour series, Beautiful England etc. A few good children's books. Easy to find in Sheep Street, and good parking either in front of shop or in the Square for 2 hours.
Peter Lyons Books
11 Imperial Square
CHELTENHAM Gloucestershire GL50 1QB map
tel: 01242 260345
Open: Wednesday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
The Cotswolds newest secondhand bookshop is in the centre of Cheltenham, just off the Promenade and opposite the Town Hall. Specialists in collectable children's books, art books and modern first editions. Good general stock as well as ephemera, magazines, vinyl and postcards.
Quayside Books
7-9 Commercial Road
GLOUCESTER Gloucestershire GL1 2DY map
tel: 01452 - 300422
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
General secondhand bookshop with storeroom at the rear. Particularly interested in military, maritime and transport books.
Nice small bookshop with friendly and helpful owner. Worth the short walk from the centre. - George Marshall 06.02.09.
Tried to visit this shop yesterday (a Saturday) @ 11.00 - closed. Tried again at 2.00 - still closed. Suggest you ring before making a detour. - Daedalus 25.06.09.
A wonderful Aladdin's cave of books very competitively priced with a charming and friendly owner. - Toby 01.11.11.
R and R Books
Nelson Street
STROUD Gloucestershire GL5 2HL map
tel: 01453 755788 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30.
Wide range of secondhand books, magazines, comics, and ephemera. Includes mind, body & spirit, esoteric, art & craft, literature, poetry & plays. Good selection of paperback fiction including classics - modern & 19th century, crime/detective, science fiction, fantasy, and children's.
Good general range most subjects average prices. Worth a look. - Norman Davies 24.04.10
Tetbury Old Books
21 Long Street
TETBURY Gloucestershire GL8 8AA map
tel: 01666 504330 e-mail
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 6.00, Sundays 12.00 - 5.00.
A small but carefully-selected stock of antiquarian, rare and second-hand books and prints covering a wide range of topics. Easy to find, opposite the Highgrove shop and next to Somerfield. Books purchased. Out-of-print titles supplied to order.
The Old Ironmongers Centre
Burford Street
LECHLADE Gloucestershire GL7 3AP map
tel: 01367 252397
Open: Monday - Sunday 10.00 - 5.00.
Three dealers with medium-size general stock with an emphasis on Wilts/Glos topography/history, military, transport, maps and antiquarian.
Top Banana Antiques Centre
Long Street
TETBURY Gloucestershire GL8 8AQ map
tel: 08712 881110
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00, Sundays 11.00 - 5.00.
Two bookrooms of medium-size general stock with an emphasis on military, country pursuits and sport. Also a good selection of antique prints, especially old advertising material.
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