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  e-mail  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  map
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   e-mail  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   e-mail  map
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  map
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  map
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.