We have grouped London's bookshops by postal district, and have therefore only included WC and EC (West Central and East Central) addresses in our "Central" district.

Amwell Book Co
53 Amwell Street
LONDON  EC1R 1UR
tel: 020 7837 4891  map

Any Amount of Books
56 Charing Cross Road
LONDON  WC2H 0QA
tel: 020 7836 3697   website  map
Rare books, first editions, modern literature, art, poetry, scholarly/academic books, antiquarian, leather bound sets, general stock. We buy large collections of books anywhere in the known world.

Atlantis Bookshop
49a Museum Street
LONDON  WC1A 1LY
tel: 020 7405 2120  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 11.00 - 6.00.
Occult, mind, body & spirit.

Blackwells
100 Charing Cross Road
LONDON  WC2H 0JG
tel: 020 7292 5100  map
    Small second hand dept - mainly academic books at two thirds of new current price. - Roger Allen

Tim Bryars
8 Cecil Court
LONDON  WC2N 4HE
tel: 020 7838 1901 fax: 020 7836 1910  e-mail   website  map
Early printed books, classical texts and translations, atlases and maps of all regions, mostly pre 1800, topographical and natural history prints. Regular exhibitor at the London Map Fair

Joe Burridge SOAS Bookshop
School of Oriental & African Studies  Brunei Gallery
Thornhaugh Street (off Russell Square)
LONDON  WC1H 0XG
tel: 020 7898 4470   website  map
Open: Monday - Friday 9.30-5.30 (Saturday 12-5 term time only: October - March)
Specialising in books on: Africa, Anthropology, Central Asia, China, development studies, economics, ethnomusicology, India, Islam, Japan, languages, Middle East, politics, religion, Southeast Asia, SOAS coursepacks & publications.

Collinge & Clark
13 Leigh Street
LONDON  WC1H 9EW
tel: 020 7387 7105  map
Open: Monday - Frirday 11.00 - 6.30  Saturday 3.30
Private press, typography, British history.

David Drummond at Pleasures of Past Times
11 Cecil Court
LONDON  WC2N 4EZ
tel: 020 7836 1142  e-mail  map
Open: Monday - Friday 11.00 - 5.45, closed for lunch 2.30 - 3.30.
Books, playbills and bygones of the performing arts, also illustrated and children's books pre 1940, Victoriana and postcards.

Francis Edwards
13 Great Newport Street Charing Cross Road
LONDON  WC2H 7JA
tel: 020 7240 7279  e-mail   website  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 6.30.

Peter Ellis
18 Cecil Court
LONDON  WC2N 4HE
tel: 020 7836 8880  e-mail   website  map
Open: Monday - Friday 10.30 - 7.00, Saturday 10.30 - 5.30.
Modern firsts, literature, illustrated, history. ABA member.

Fine Books Oriental Ltd
38 Museum Street
LONDON  WC1A 1LP
tel: 020 7242 5288  map
Specialists in Japan, the Far & Middle East.

Michael Finney Antique Books & Prints
106 Great Russell Street
LONDON  WC1A 1LG
tel: 020 7631 3533  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 6.30.
Illustrated, natural history, travel, architecture.

Robert Frew Ltd
Moved to 31 Maddox Street

Foyles
113-119 Charing Cross Road
LONDON  WC2H 0EB
tel: 020 7437 5660  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 9.00, Sundays 12.00 - 6.00, Public holidays: 11.00 - 8.00.
Gardener & Cook have a concession in the shop with around 400 books on gardening, horticulture and food and drink, from the 18th century to the present day, with prices ranging from £10 to £10,000. Customers will also be able to order from a range of 8,000 titles.

Gekoski
Pied Bull Yard  15a Bloomsbury Square
LONDON  WC1A 2LP
tel: 020 7404 6676  map
Modern first editions, letters & manuscripts.

Greening Burland
27 Cecil Court
LONDON  WC2N 4EZ
tel: 020 7836 0999  e-mail  map
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 6.00  Saturday 10.00 - 5.00
Victorian and twentieth century fiction, modern first editions, original artwork and periodicals.

Griffith & Partners Ltd
31-35, Great Ormond Street
LONDON  WC1N 3HZ
tel: 020 7430 1394  map
Open: Monday - Friday 12.00 - 6.00
London & Wales topography, travel.

Paul J. Hilton
12 Cecil Court
LONDON  WC2N 4HE
tel: 020 7379 9825  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 11.00 - 5.00
Antiquarian and general books, especially English literature, modern first editions, bibles and antiquarian theology.

Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers
46  Great Russell Street
LONDON  WC1B 3PA
tel: 020 7631 4220  map
Open: Monday-Friday 10.30 - 5.30
Dickens first editions, the Romantics & theatre.

Judd Books
82 Marchmont Street
LONDON  WC1N 1AG
tel: 020 7387 5333   website  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 11.00 - 7.00, Sunday 12.00 - 6.00.
We have a very large stock of used, remaindered and academic books especially in architecture, history and philosophy..

Marchpane
16 Cecil Court
LONDON  WC2N 4HE
tel: 020 7836 8661  e-mail   website  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.30 - 6.00
Children's and illustrated books. ABA & PBFA member.

Marchmont Bookshop
39 Burton Street
LONDON WC1H 9AL
tel: 020 7387 7989  map
Open: infrequently because of illness.

Murder One Bookshop
76-78 Charing Cross Road
LONDON  WC2H 0NE
tel: 020 7734 3483  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 7.00.
Crime, mystery, horror, romance.
    Nolonger has SF and the only second-hand stock is crime fiction and not very large. - Roger Allen.

Notions Antiquaria (T. Alena Brett)
24 Cecil Court
LONDON  WC2N 4HE
tel & fax: 020 7836 8222
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 6.00.
Specialist in genuine antiquarian books, maps, prints and documents.

Photo Books International
99 Judd Street
LONDON  WC1H 9NE
tel: 020 7813 7363  e-mail   website  map
Specialists In Photographic Books. A Wide Selection Of New & Used Photography Books From Around The World. Always Interested In Buying Good Quality Photographic Books.

Henry Pordes Books Ltd
58-60, Charing Cross Road
LONDON  WC2H 0BB
tel: 020 7836 9031  map
The arts, cinema, music and theatre.

Arthur Probsthain
41 Great Russell Street
LONDON  WC1B 3PE
tel: 020 7636 1096  map
Open: Monday - Frirday 9.30 - 5.30  Saturday 11.00 - 4.00.
African & Oriental specialist.

Quinto Bookshop
48a Charing Cross Road
LONDON  WC2H 0BB
tel: 020 7379 7669  map

Bertram Rota Ltd
31 Long Acre
LONDON  WC2E 9LT
tel: 020 783 60723  fax: 020 74979058  e-mail   website  map
Open: Monday - Friday 9.30 - 5.30. Appointment recommended.
Modern first editions, private press and artists' books, architecture and the applied arts, archives and manuscripts.

Shipley Specialist Art Booksellers Ltd
70 Charing Cross Road
LONDON  WC2H 0BQ
tel: 020 7836 4872  map
New, old, rare and scholarly books on art.

Skoob
66 The Brunswick
LONDON  WC1N 1AE
tel: 020 7278 8760  e-mail   website  map
London's broadest selection of secondhand academic books, the UK's widest range in philosophy and large collections of modern literature, art, history, politics, economics, classics, science and technology.

Spink & Son Ltd
69, Southampton Row  Bloomsbury
LONDON WC1B 4ET
tel: 020 7563 4000  map
Numismatics, stamps & banknotes.

Storeys Ltd
3 Cecil Court
LONDON  WC2N 4EZ
tel: 020 7836 3777  fax: 020 7836 3788  e-mail  map
Open Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 6.00
Antiquarian engravings, maps and prints.

Travis & Emery Books on Music
17 Cecil Court
LONDON  WC2N 4EZ
tel: 020 7240 2129  e-mail   website  map
Open Monday - Saturday 10.15 - 6.45, Sunday 12.00 - 6.00.
New and old books on music, secondhand and antiquarian music, opera programmes, prints and photographs, prints, playbills, libretti. ABA & PBFA member.

Treadwell's Bookshop
34 Tavistock Street  Covent Garden  
LONDON  WC2E 7PB
tel: 020 7240 8906  e-mail   website  map
Open: Seven days a week 12 noon - 7.00.
Secondhand and out-of-print: cultural history, magic, witchcraft, Wicca, paganism, gender studies, literature. We also have space to hire, and an ongoing programme of events (see our website).

Tindley & Chapman
4 Cecil Court
LONDON  WC2N 4HE
Tel: 020 7240 2161  fax: 020 7379 1062  map
Open Monday - Saturday 10.30 - 5.00
Twentieth Century first editions and architecture. PBFA member.

Ulysses
40 Museum Street
LONDON  WC1A 1LU
tel: 020 7831 1600  map
Modern first editions and illustrated books.

Unsworth's at Foyles
113-119 Charing Cross Road
LONDON  WC2H 0EB
tel: 020 7494 9820  fax: 020 7494 9830  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 9.00, Sunday 12.00 -6.00.
An Antiquarian and Rare Book Department on the 3rd floor of Foyles, the world's most famous bookshop.

Waterstone's Booksellers
82 Gower Street
LONDON  WC1E 6EQ
tel: 020 7636 1577  map
Large secondhand academic stock.

Watkins Books Ltd
19 Cecil Court
LONDON  WC2N 4NH
tel: 020 7836 2182  map
Mind, body & spirit.

Wildy & Sons Ltd
Lincoln's Inn Archway  Carey Street
LONDON  WC2A 2JD
tel: 020 7242 5778  map
Lawbooks, criminology, true crime.

Nigel Williams Rare Books
25 Cecil Court
LONDON  WC2N 4HE
tel: 020 7836 7757  e-mail   website  map
Open Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 6.00 
First editions, detective fiction, illustrated books, interesting nineteenth and twentieth century literature. ABA & PBFA member.

The Witch Ball
2 Cecil Court
LONDON  WC2N 4HE
tel & fax: 020 7836 2922  e-mail   website  map
Open Monday - Saturday 10.30 - 6.30 
Antiquarian print shop, specialists in the performing arts.