We have grouped London's bookshops by postal district.

Al Saqi Books
26 Westbourne Grove
LONDON  W2 5RH
tel: 020 7229 8543  map
New & Some secondhand books on the Islamic world.

Altea Maps & Globes
35 St. George's Street
London W1S 2FN
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 6.00, Saturdays 11.00 - 4.00, all other times by appointment.
tel: 020 7491 0010  fax: 020 7491 0015  e-mail  website  map
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.

Book & Comic Exchange
14 Pembridge Road
LONDON  W11 3HL
tel: 020 7229 8420  map
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.

Books for Amnesty
139b King Street  Hammersmith
LONDON  W6 9JG
tel: 020 8746 3172  e-mail  website  map
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
tel: 020 7224 2295  e-mail  website  map
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.

Sam Fogg Rare Books Ltd
15d Clifford Street
LONDON  W1S 4JZ
tel: 020 7534 2100

Foster's Bookshop
183 Chiswick High Road
LONDON  W4 2DR
tel: 020 8995 2768  e-mail  website  map
Open: Tuesday to Saturday 10.30 to 5.30.
Fine books and bindings, childrens, 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
tel: 020 7722 0063  map

Garden Books
11 Blenheim Crescent
LONDON  W11 2EE
tel: 020 7792 0777  map
New & a few older gardening & design books

R. A. Gekoski Booksellers
13 Bathurst Mews
LONDON  W2 2SB
tel: 020 7706 2735 fax: 07831 875202  e-mail  website  map
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.

Golfiana Gallery
Grays-in-the-Mews  Davies Mews
LONDON  W1K 5AB
tel: 020 7408 1239  map
Golfiana, Children's and Juvenilia.

Adrian Harrington Antiquarian Bookseller
64a Kensington Church Street
LONDON  W8 4DB
tel: 020 7937 1465  map
    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.

Heywood Hill Ltd
10 Curzon Street
LONDON  W1J 5HH
tel: 020 7629 0647  map
Antiquarian and children's books.

Hosain Books
25 Connaught Street
LONDON W2 2AY
tel: 020 7262 7900  map
Specialists in Central Asia & the Middle East.

Lowendahl Rare Books
34-36 Maddox Street
LONDON  W1S 1PD
tel: 020 7491 1896  map

Maggs Bros Ltd
50 Berkeley Square
LONDON  W1J 5BA
tel: 020 7493 7160  map
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
tel: 020 7493 6993  map
Antiquarian, English literature, illustrated and bindings.

Notting Hill Books
132 Palace Gardens Terrace
LONDON  W8 4RT
tel: 020 7727 5988  map
Mainly remainders and review copies.

Oxfam Bookshop
90 Turnham Green Terrace  Chiswick
LONDON  W4 1QN
tel: 020 8 995 6059  map
    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.

Oxfam Bookshop
1 The Green  Ealing
LONDON  W5 5DA
tel: 020 8567 2152  map

Oxfam Books & Music
Marylebone High St
LONDON  W1U 4RB
tel: 020 7487 3570  e-mail  website  map
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.
    Bog standard stock attractively presented. Nothing collectable on my visit. Not worth a detour. - Loyola 24.04.10.

Oxfam Bookshop
170 Portobello Road
LONDON  W11 2EB
tel: 0207 7272907  map

Pickering & Chatto
36 St. George Street
LONDON  W1S 2FJ
tel: 020 7491 2656  map
Economics, literature, science & medicine.

William Poole
97 New Bond Street
LONDON  W1S 1SL
020 7629 8738

Jonathan Potter Ltd
125 New Bond Street
LONDON  W1S 1DY
tel: 020 7491 3520  map
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 6.00
Specialist dealers in antique maps, charts, atlases and books on the history of cartography and travel.

Bernard Quaritch Ltd
5-8 Lower John Street
LONDON  W1F 9AU
tel: 020 7734 2983  e-mail  website  map
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.

Sophie Schneideman Rare Books
331 Portabello Road
LONDON  W10 5SA
tel: 020 8354 7365  e-mail  map
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.

Bernard J Shapero Rare Books
32 St. George Street
LONDON  W1S 2EA
tel: 020 7493 0876  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 6.30
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.

Henry Sotheran Ltd
2 Sackville Street  Piccadilly
LONDON  W1S 3DP
tel: 020 7439 6151  fax: 0207 434 2019  e-mail  website  map
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.

Travel Bookshop Ltd
13 Blenheim Crescent
LONDON  W11 2EE
tel: 020 7229 5260  map
New & secondhand travel books.

Trinity Hospice Bookshop
31 Kensington Church Street
LONDON  W8 4LL
tel: 020 7376 1098  e-mail  map
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.

Tusculum Rare Books
34 -36 Maddox Street
LONDON  W1S 1PD
tel: 020 7409 7894  map

Vintage Magazine Shop
39-43, Brewer Street
LONDON  W1F 9UD
Tel: 020 7439 8525  map
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.