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The
Bar Bookstore
4 Swan Hill Road
SCARBOROUGH North Yorkshire YO11 1BW
tel: 01723 500141 map
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.
Barbican
Bookshop
24 Fossgate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 9TA
tel: 01904 653643 fax: 01904 653643
e-mail website
map
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.
Whacky vicar heaven- bibles at the front
and steam train books at the back- but with enough to please normal
punters and the prices are good. - George Marshall 04.02.10.
Bloomindales
The Old Library Market Hall Market Place
HAWES North Yorkshire DL8 3QN
tel: 01729 860319 fax: 01729 860319
map
Open: 7 days 10.00 - 5.00 (but best to ring first between November
to Easter).
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.
The Bookshelf
6 Victoria Road
SCARBOROUGH North Yorkshire YO11 1SD
tel:
01723 381677
e-mail website
map
Open: Monday -Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
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.
Books For
All
23a, Commercial Street
HARROGATE North Yorkshire HG1 1UB
tel: 01423 561982
map
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.
The Book
Emporium
89 High Street Great Ayton
MIDDLESBROUGH Cleveland TS9 6NF
tel: 01642 723223
map
Open: Wednesday - Friday 1.30 - 4.00, Saturday 10.00 - 4.00.
A stock of about 7,000 general secondhand and out-of-print books.
British Heart
Foundation Books & Music Shop
12a Beulah Street
HARROGATE North Yorkshire HG1 1QQ
tel: 01423 563245
map
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 & Secondhand Books
Old Fire Station Borogate
HELMSLEY North Yorkshire YO62 5BN
tel: 01439 770014 map
Open:
Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00. Sunday 12.00 - 5.00.
General secondhand stock, some antiquarian and publisher's remainders.
Endeavour
Books
2 Grape Lane
WHITBY North Yorkshire YO22 4BA
tel: 01947 821331
map
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 handbookshop in Whitby but well worth stopping off at.
- Jeremy Briggs.
This shop is too exspensive - Sara Pannal
17.10.08.
Fossgate
Books
36 Fossgate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 9TF
tel: 01904 641389
map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
General stock of academic and scholarly books.
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.
Grosmont
Bookshop
Co-Op Building Front Street
GROSMONT North Yorkshire YO22 5QE
tel: 01947895170
e-mail website
map
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.
Grove Rare
Books
Bolton Abbey
SKIPTON North Yorkshire BD23 6EX
tel: 01756 710717
e-mail
website
map
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.
Hambleton
Books
43 Market Place
THIRSK North Yorkshire YO7 1HA
tel: 01845 522343
map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.30. Sunday 10.30 - 4.30.
First edition fiction, sports, military, transport and children's
books.
A new book shop with a small selection
of second hand stuff stuck at the back. - Richard.
Lucius Bookshop
and Gallery
41 Fossgate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 9TF
tel: 01904 640111 fax: 01904 640444
e-mail website
map
Open: Tuesday - 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.
Market Vaults
St Helen's Square
SCARBOROUGH North Yorkshire YO11 1EU
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
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 wideranging stock of beatifully 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.
Mrs Lofthouse's
Secondhand Book Emporium
2 Queen Street
SCARBOROUGH
North Yorkshire YO11 1SH
tel: 01723 506057
map
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
Oxfam Books
and Records
3 Montpellier Parade
HARROGATE North Yorkshire HG1 2TJ
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..
Stock was uniformly over-priced.-
Geoff Hatherick 22.07.08.
Oxfam Books
and Music
20 High Street
SKIPTON North Yorkshire BD23 1JZ
tel: 07519 787529
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map
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 Bookshop
69 Low Petergate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1
7HY
tel: 01904 652749
map
Like all oxfams overpriced but worth
a look with a seeming fast changing stock.
- Norman Davies 09.02.11.
Oxfam Bookshop
46 Micklegate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1
6LF
tel: 01904 652140
map
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
tel: 07818 470123
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00.
Books on hunting, shooting, fishing and firearms.
2 or 3 shelves of books on field sports
that look as though they have been there for ever - Bookworm 13.04.10.
Janette Ray
8 Bootham
YORK North Yorkshire YO30 5RG
tel: 01904 623088
map
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.
Richmond
Books
20 Trinity Church Square
RICHMOND North Yorkshire DL10 4QN
tel: 01325 377332 map
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.
Robin's Hood
Bay Bookshops
map
Despite the closure of the Old Chapel's Bookshop, there are still
three places to buy secondhand books, at least in the summer.
Pages, The Bank. 07944 574250
The Old Post Office, King's Street. 01947 880849
Name unknown, in Chapel Street.
Ken Spelman
70 Micklegate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1
6LF
tel: 01904 624414
e-mail website
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Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.30.
Books on the fine arts, architecture, garen 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.
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.
Hmmmm .... a telephone enquiry about a lovely
copy of an early local guide book led to a valuation of maybe £20
- they had a worse copy online in the hundreds ... maybe an oversight,
maybe not ... won't bother in future. - - Sam 09.04.10.
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.
Saltburn
Bookshop
3 Amber Street
SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA Cleveland TS12 1DT
tel: 01287 623335
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map
Open: Thursday - Saturday 11.00 - 1.00 & 2.00 - 4.00, but best
to phone first if traveling.
Awaiting description.
Stone Trough
Books
51 Walmgate
YORK North Yorkshire YO1 9TY
tel: 01904 670323
map
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30.
Small general stock and literature.
Moved to this address 01.07.09. TBG
The Tadcaster
Bookshop
17 Bridge Street
TADCASTER North Yorkshire LS24 9AW
tel: 01937 832003
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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.
Taikoo Books
Ltd
46 Bootham
YORK North Yorkshire YO30 7BZ
tel: 01904 641213
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Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 5.30.
Books on Africa and the Orient.
York Modern
Books
The Bull Centre
STOCKTON-ON-THE-FOREST North Yorkshire YO32 9LE
tel: 01904400331 fax: 01904400331
e-mail website
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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
tel: ? map
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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