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Cities include (listed basically west to east, north to south by region,
alphabetically within region; if anyone has a better ordering, let me know):
Bridge of Allan, Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland
Glasgow, Scotland
Inverness, Scotland
Iona, Scotland
Lochinver, Scotland
Perth, Scotland
Stirling, Scotland
Birmingham, England
Brighton, England
Bristol, England
Cambridge, England
Canterbury, England
Cheltenham, England
Coventry, England
Dorking, England
Horsham, England
Lancaster, England
Liverpool, England
London, England
Ludlow, Shropshire, England
Malvern, County of Hereford and Worcester, England
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Norwich, England
Nottingham, England
Oxford, England
Ramsgate, England
Reigate, England
Saffron Walden, England
Stratford, England
Twyning (Gloucestershire), England
Hay-on-Wye, Wales
Miscellaneous UK notes

The UK country code is 44.  To dial from outside the UK, drop the leading
"0" in the telephone number given and prefix it with "44" (after whatever
your phone system requires).  The phone numbers here reflect the recent
change requiring "1" after the "0" and before the city code; update your
other phone numbers accordingly.

[Note 1: I collected these comments from a variety of people.  I personally
have no knowledge of many of these places and take no responsibility if you
buy a book you don't enjoy. :-)   Phone numbers and precise addresses can be
gotten by calling directory assistance for the appropriate city.  Call ahead
for precise hours, as even when I list them they are subject to change.]

[Note 2: If you can add information for any of these, in particular
addresses when they are missing, please send it to me.]

[Note 3: I am cross-posting this to rec.arts.sf.written, but the bookstores
listed include *all* types of bookstores, so please don't tell me that a
particular store has a limited SF section unless I have specifically claimed
otherwise.  All references to science fiction are abbreviated SF for ease in
electronic searching.]

[Note 4: I know they're bookshops in Britain, not bookstores.  In the text
I try to follow this; the introductory material is used world-wide and
uses "bookstores" instead.]

[Note 5: Someone sent this for a particular store, but it applies
everywhere: "Don't complain about high prices; the people in the shop don't
make them, we only try to get a wide range of books and help customers as
well as we can.  Books might look a bit than dearer in your home country but
the costs, the costs!  We are not, I repeat not, a tourist office--it can be
very annoying to try to do your job and being interupted a hundred times a
day for the way to the Rijks-, Van Gogh or any other museum.  (We are
willing to sell you a map of Amsterdam and then point you in the right
direction.)"]

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Subject: Bridge of Allan, Scotland

Bridge of Allan Books (2 Henderson, 01786-834483).  Antiquarian, secondhand
	books, and prints, with preference to works about Scotland.
	Academic material prevails due to the University of Stirling which
	is in town.

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Subject: Edinburgh, Scotland

Aria Records (Dundas St).  "The biggest range of second-hand classical
	recordings I've seen anywhere, as well as second-hand books on
	music."
Bargain Books (Princes St).  Very limited selection, but a good place for
	picking up, say, the complete Shakespeare/Conan Doyle/Brothers
	Grimm practically free.  Part of a chain; if you've been in
	one, you've been in them all.
Bauermeisters (on George IV Bridge).  Also has a good classical CD section
	with a separate entrance).
Campbell and Stilwell (South Bridge, across the street from Thins).  "A
	remainder shop unconnected with the Bargain Books empire and
	accordingly with quite different stock.  Their stocks fluctuate
	wildly but they sometimes have some of the best bargains you'll find
	anywhere."
Castle Books (Canongate).  Used.
Dead Head Comics (44 Victoria St).  Wide range of US/UK mainstream and
	independent comics and graphic novels.  Probably superior range to
	Forbidden Planet, definitely better atmosphere.
Eddie Fenwick (Thirlestane Lane).  Mainly a mail-order business in
	mathematics and mountaineering books from his home, but you can
	drop in to see the stuff for yourself; phone him.
Donald Ferrier (Teviot Place).  Medical, new and secondhand.
Forbidden Planet (3 Teviot Place, EH1 2QZ, (131)-225-8613).  SF.
Macnaughtons (Haddington Place, Leith Walk).  The biggest second-hand
	bookshop in town and the least friendly.
The One World Shop (in the Cornerstone under St John's Church in Lothian
	Road) is a Christian-pacifist shop with a small but good selection
	of Third World, environmental and feminist stuff; also Traidfare
	goods and world music.
Rae MacIntosh (West End).  For sheet music and classical CDs.
Second Edition (Canonmills).  Used.  Has the highest prices, but is subject
	to haggling.
Sheena McNeil (Bruntsfield Links).  Sheet music.
James Thins (53-59 South Bridge, 0131-556-6743, FAX 0131-557-8149).  The
	biggest bookshop in Scotland and (after John Smiths in Glasgow, the
	second oldest.  Some people think it's great; others think it's the
	worst they've dealt with.  One sums up both sides, I think, with:
	"They have half a dozen branches in Edinburgh, a vast academic
	section, and maintain close contacts with the Universities.
	However, they do tend to be rather complacent and unhelpful at
	times, and tend to act as if they were a monopoly supplier, with a
	'like it or lump it' attitude." Will ship world-wide (or at least to
	Europe).
Tills (Buccleuch St).  Used.
Waterstone's (128 Princes St, 13/14 Princes St, and 83 Georges St).  Large
	chain.  128 Princes Street is their new flagship branch.
	"Sandwiched between HMV and Virgin.  This was opened in November 92
	and I must admit I am impressed.  It is on four floors, and is
	second only to the main Thins branch for volumes carried.  There are
	excellent fiction, biography, foreign literature, foreign language,
	history, Scottish, legal, cooking, gardening, pretty good SF, and
	the usual range of academic subjects.  It is a very good bookshop."
	The 83 George Street shop has a large ground floor and smaller
	basement.  This branch has a bias in favour of fiction and
	biography.  The SF section is not so good.  It has quite a good
	section of art books: both textual and coffee table.  Academic areas
	are rather weak.  Scottish authors have their own section as does
	Scottish history, etc.  These sections are not bad.
Wesley Owen (George St).  (Used to be Church of Scotland Bookshop.)  Stocks
	a wide range of Christian books.
West and Wilde (25a Dundas St).  Gay/lesbian/bisexual books.
West Port Books (West Port near Lothian Rd.).  Used.  An amazing range of
	Indian stuff, following the owner's holiday-cum-book-buying-trip to
	India in 1992; also good for secondhand sheet music, but not for the
	claustrophobic.
? (Spittal St around the corner from Old Grindle's).  Used.  Has
	second-hand football programmes.  May have moved (in which case
	this listing is really useless!).
(a couple of secondhand book shops in Broughton St and at the top
of Leith Walk and several secondhand and antiquarian book shops in the
	Grassmarket).

You can pick up a leaflet with a full list of secondhand book shops from any
one of them.  The Assembly Rooms in George St. often holds book fairs on
Saturdays where many of the second-hand booksellers exhibit.

Waterstones and John Menzies are huge UK-wide chains that sell magazines
and airport bestsellers.  "A comment on Waterstones, everywhere: their
scientific/technical sections are an insulting joke.  They all have less on
all real science put together than on New Age fads.  This alone is enough
to put me off ever using them."

A second opinion on Waterstone's:  "It is easily the best book chain in the
UK.  The ones in Chester and (especially) Manchester (which are on Bridge
Street Row and Deansgate respectively if you want to include them) have very
good scientific and technical sections.  The one in Manchester even stocks a
fair range of US scientific, computer and SF books (and maybe others, but
those are the areas I know about).  Waterstone's is owned by WH Smiths, by
the way, which also sells books in its own right and owns the large Sherratt
& Hughes chain.  They sell a *lot* of books.  One reason for the variable
quality of Waterstone's is that those that have always been Waterstone's are
better than those that were relabelled after Smiths bought the Waterstone's
chain."

A third says: "I don't know what their Scottish shops are like and their
airport shops are about what you expect but their Cambridge and Norwich
shops both have reasonable scientific/ technical sections."

"One of the major remainder dealers in Edinburgh (used to be in Hamilton
Place, Stockbridge) has recently [3/94] gone bust.  This is likely to mean
that a vast amount of remainder stock appears on the market again somewhere
else.  They had an idiosyncratic selection of academic social sciences and
theology books including what seemed to be the entire backlist of Scottish
Academic Press."

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Subject: Glasgow, Scotland

Adam's Books (Parnie St near is near Glasgow Cross at the back of the
	Tron Theatre).  Secondhand.  "To be honest, Adam's Books was not at
	all good.  Nothing realy in order, and nothing much worth reading.
	Was more remainder/bargain type books than real second hand."
AKA Books and Comics (Parnie St).  Not many books, but probably *the* place
	for comics.
Bargain Books (chain of small shops).  Limited stock but excellent bargain
	prices.  If you've been in one of the chain, you've been in them
	all.
Caledonia Books (Great Western Road).  Used.  Strong in modern literature
	and art.
The Christian Book Centre (Great Western Road, very close to Caledonia
	Books, Voltaire and Rousseau, Word of Mouth and Gilmorehill
	Books).  New and second-hand Christian material and the best
	selection of second-hand classical records and books on
	classical music in town.
Centerpeace (Stockwell St).  Pacifist/feminist/Third World/environmental/
	liberation theology material (run by radical Christians).
Clyde Books (Parnie St).  Radical/socialist/feminist/green.
Dillons (the Argyle St/Union St corner).  A very large branch.
	More modern than Smiths and a great place to pick up book
	bargains.  Close to Smiths and Waterstones.
Dowanhill Books (in a lane off Byres Road opposite Hillhead tube station).
	Used.
Forbidden Planet (168 Buchanan St, G1 2LW, (141)-331-1215).  SF and comics.
Futureshock (31 Byres Road, and Woodlands Rd).  American imports and *old*
	paperbacks as well as imports.  They also stock some comics, though
	not many.  The nearest Underground stations are Partick and
	Hillhead.
Gilmorehill Books (Bank St).  Used.
Kollectables (51 Parnie, Trongate, Glasgow G1 5LU, 0141 552 2208).  "The
	shop is an amalgamation of three people's different collectables
	interests.  The section run by Fred Rennie (not in on Wednesdays) is
	a very good collection of SF, fantasy, and horror books (around 1500
	at a guess)." The shop is next door to Adam's Books.  Open Mon-Sat
	1000-1700.
The Little Bookworm (a booth in Decourcy's Arcade).  For the under-five-
	year-old market with new books in bright colours.  Not so much
	choice, but they will order for you with quick delivery.
Obelisk (Virginia Galleries, Virginia St).  Used SF and mysteries.  "That
	nice man in Obelisk sold me seven Andre Norton books on Friday last.
	When I had picked out three from the shelves and went over to pay
	for them, he said that if I was interested he had got in some Ace
	doubles and among them I found four more Andre Norton in what looked
	to me like perfect condition.  With Andre Norton I find that the
	older the story, often the better.  He had them in his locked glass
	bookcase, so if you have some special interest it is a good idea to
	talk to him as well as just browse the shelves."
Pitcairn Books (a booth in Decourcy's Arcade).  "Has a chatty owner who
	seems to want to specialize in books with illustrated covers (those
	gilt bindings and pictures actually on the book, not dust covers).
	He has a fair amount of modern fiction in stock, while most of his
	paperback books are relegated to the corridor outside the booth
	selling off inexpensively.  I've bought a few Scottish books there.
	I think he keeps a lot of books at home, he is overflowing his shop.
	No new books."
John Smith and Sons (St. Vincent St, j.smith@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk).  General
	and academic stock, no second-hand or antiquarian.  Agency for the
	Ordnance Survey.  This is the main branch and is famous enough for
	you to be able to ask directions to it.  It has 5 floors and keeps
	books on just about any subject you can think of.  Main public
	transport terminals nearby (i.e., walking distance) include Central
	Station (trains), Queen Street Station (trains), Buchanan Street
	Station (buses) and Buchanan Street Underground Station.  Close to
	Dillons and Waterstones.
John Smith and Sons (University Bookshop, University Avenue, Hillhead) (west
	of the city centre).  A strictly academic bookshop, they specialise
	in stocking books on the recommended reading lists for students
	supplied by Glasgow University (who keep close links with the shop).
	There's a student charity bookshop above it which sells secondhand
	textbooks with the profits going to help South African blacks study
	at Glasgow: good for medical books and is open 11h-15h in termtime.
	Most university courses are in evidence in the shop - medical books
	particularly so.  Main public transport terminal nearby is Hillhead
	Underground Station.  They even have an email address:
	j.smith@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk, and will ship worldwide.  You can't
	telnet the catalog, and please note: this is has typical academic
	bookshop stock; they don't have an antiquarian department and those
	sorts of request are a waste of time.
John Smith and Sons (Byres Road Branch, Byres Road, Hillhead).  A mainstream
	three-storey bookshop.  Simply a scaled-down version of the main
	shop.  This shop is located next door to the Hillhead Underground
	Station.  The university shop is five minutes away on foot.  A nice
	area in general, well worth a look: there are several famous
	cafes/coffee shops around here too (e.g., The Ubiquitous Chip, The
	Underground Gallery).
Voltaire and Rousseau (Otago Street Lane).  Used.  Good for cheap grubby
	bargains.
Waterstones (Union St very close to Dillons).  Large branch.
	More modern than Smiths.  Close to Smiths.
Wesley Owen (Buchanan St near the Underground Station).  Near Forbidden
	Planet.  Christian bookshop.  (Used to be Church of Scotland
	Bookshop.)
Word of Mouth (?).  Food and cookery; this place is amazing.  They had to
	move from their Bank Street building because it was falling down;
	they are now in temporary premises on a mezzanine floor inside
	"Moon" clothing shop, which in turn is up a short alley off Great
	Western Road, a block above Caledonia Books.  The stock is much
	smaller than it used to be.
charity shops in Byres Rd, all of which sell books, starting with Cancer
	Research, Oxfam, Dr Barnado's, Save the Children, as well as the
	back alley secondhand books (next to Oxfam) and occasionally
	DeCourcy's arcade)

For books and audiocassettes in Hindi and Urdu there are two shops in
Allison Street, Govanhill.  There is a Chinese bookshop in the Garnethill
area (Glasgow's Chinatown).

Regarding Smiths, one reader says:
"There are other branches of Smiths, but these three should cover all
your needs wherever you are in Glasgow.  All Smiths shops are tied by a
computer network allowing the facility for quick look up of stocks
elsewhere in the city and quick transfer between branches in the case
where a particular book is not in stock at a certain branch.  They can
also order ANY book in print as long as they can locate the ISBN, and
send it to any address you please.  They have British and Overseas Books
in Print on Microfiche for this purpose."

See Edinburgh, UK, for further details on Smiths, Waterstone's and
John Menzies.

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Subject: Inverness, Scotland

Books etc. (Victorian Market, Western Entrance).  A good selection of the
	normal range of secondhand books.
Leakey's Secondhand Bookshop (Greenfriars Hall, Church St, 01463-239947).
	"A bookshop in a disused church, which allows for a spacious lay-out
	of the really superb selection of used books.  Plenty of paperbacks
	and hardcovers in a quite well-ordered arrangement.  I enjoyed the
	choice on SF and crime."

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Subject: Iona, Scotland

"There is a small second-hand bookshop (must be one of the most remote
in the world) on the road between the village and the abbey.
Reasonable general stock, not as touristy or religious as the location
might lead you to expect."

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Subject: Lochinver, Scotland

Books & Teas (some 5km south on the coastal road at the start of the path to
	the Falls of Kirkaig).  One of the very remote bookshops Scotland
	has to offer.  A standard choice of new books.

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Subject: Perth, Scotland

The Bookcase (5 St. Pauls Square, 01738-443534).  The normal choice of
	secondhand books.
The Perth Bookshop (Abbot St).  Secondhand books.

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Subject: Stirling, Scotland

The Bookshop (30 Spittal, 01786-461771).  A very large and quality choice of
	secondhand books on all subjects, but don't forget to be shown the
	basement were the more 'common' books are kept.

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Subject: Birmingham, England

Andromeda Bookshop (2-5 Suffolk, B1 1LT, 0121-643-1999,
	FAX 0121-643-2001).  A science fiction specialist bookstore with
	many imports from the States.  It is regarded as one of the best SF
	stores in the whole UK.  Upstairs has a large second hand paperback
	section; also many fan magazines.  "The oldest specialist science
	fiction bookshop in the world [established 1971] and has the largest
	selection of science fiction/fantasy in Europe."  Recently [7/96]
	moved to a location four times the size of the old one.
Dillons.  This is a large bookstore in a beautifully restored Victorian (?)
	building.  The books are arranged on balconies around a huge atrium.
	Entering this store is a bit like entering a palace!  "Personally I
	find it easier to locate books here than in Waterstones."
Nostalgia and Comics.  This is a comic book store, with comic-related books
	too.
WH Smiths.  This store has a reasonable general stock on its second floor,
	but has it does have an excellent Star Trek section.
Waterstones.  This is a large general bookstore spread over five floors of a
	tower block.  "I find its layout somewhat of a mess."

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Subject: Brighton, England

Forbidden Planet (29 Sydney St, BN1 4EP, (127)-368-7620).  SF and comics.

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Subject: Bristol, England

Forbidden Planet (30 Penn St, BS1 3AS, (117)-929-8692).  SF and comics.

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Subject: Cambridge, England

Cambridge University Press Bookshop (Market Hill).  Has been a bookshop
	since before the America was founded!  Mostly CUP only.
Children's Bookshop (30 Trinity).
David's (two shops near the open-air market).  Used books.  One shop is
	small and has a reasonable antiquarian section, the other has a
	*very* cheap selection of academic books in arts and other subjects,
	many remaindered but not all. 
Deighton, Bell and Co. (13 Trinity, 0223-568585).  Used.
Dillons (Sidney St).  Large shop.
Forbidden Planet (60 Burleigh St, CB1 1DJ, (122)-330-1666).  SF and comics.
Galloway and Porter (Sidney St).  Used to be good; now mostly remaindered
	text books and such.  Still a very good place to pick up cheap books
	on subjects that don't change too much, like anatomy, European
	history, or botany.  Of course, computer books aren't so hot.
The Haunted Bookshop (near David's).  A small antiquarian shop.
Heffers Booksellers (20 Trinity St, Cambridge CB2 3NG, 0223-568568;
	FAX 0223-410464).  Cambridge's answer to Blackwells.  They also own
	Deighton, Bell and Co. and the Children's Bookshop.  They have
	foreign-language books.  "Heffers issues catalogues in a variety of
	fields, and they are really outstanding about mail order.  They
	accept Visa and Mastercard; they will also open accounts for
	customers and accept payment in dollars."  (Someone else said the
	FAX number is 01223-568591.)
Heffers Paperback Bookshop (St. Andrews St).
Heffers (the Grafton Centre).
Open Windows (35 Bermuda Terrace, Cambridge CB 3LD, 0223-313273,
	FAX 0223-461391, JLD1@cus.cam.ac.uk).  Supplies books covering
	all aspects of the UNIX and Apple OSs, including Languages such as
	C.  The people who run it are knowledgeble and friendly.  The
	catalogue they publish is very good, particularly the subject index.
	They split their service into two areas publishing two seperate
	catalogues: the "Unix Book Service" and the "Apple Mac Book
	Service." This is a mail-order service only (no visitors)."
	Waterstones (near the Round Church).  A very large shop.  Good SF
	selection compared to Heffers or Dillions.
Oxfam (Sidney St).  Quite an interesting place to look.  As they are
	supplied not by the regular book-trading public only there is always
	a chance to pick up a long-looked-for book.
WH Smiths (Lion Yard).  Mostly magazines and stationary but books upstairs.

There are a lot of second-hand book shops in Cambridge, mostly tucked away
down alleys.

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Subject: Canterbury, England

Academic & Old Books (5 North Ln).  Slightly chaotic but extensive selection
	on two floors on all subjects, hardcover and paperback.  Good chance
	to pick up the book you have been looking for for ages as nobody
	seems to know what really is in the shop.  "Due to serious illness
	of the owner the shop is opened irregularly."  [4/96]
Canterbury Bookshop (37 Northgate).  An extensive selection of hardcovers
	and a good choice of paperbacks on a wide range of subjects.
Chaucer Bookshop (6 Beer Cart Ln).  Good choice of hardcovers and a
	reasonable choice of paperbacks.
SPCK Bookshop (7 St. Peters).  A bookshop for things pertaining to religion.

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Subject: Cheltenham, England

Alan Hancox Fine Books (101 Promenade downstairs ). Good, general secondhand
	store.
Michael Rayner (11 St. Luke's Road [a small street off the Bath Road].
	Good, general secondhand store.
Waterstone's.

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Subject: Coventry, England

Forbidden Planet (31 Cross Cheaping, CV1 1HF, (120)-322-9672).  SF and
	comics.

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Subject: Dorking, England

T. S. Hill Books (122 South St).  A good choice of secondhand books.

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Subject: Horsham, England

The Horsham Bookshop (4 Park Pl, 01403-252187).  Two floors full of
	secondhand books on all subjects.

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Subject: Lancaster, England

Atticus (King St).  Second-hand.  Good selection of fiction, childrens, and
	bits and pieces. 
Interstellar Master Traders (33 North Road, Lancaster LA1-1NS,
	(0)1524-382181, i-m-t@i-m-t.demon.co.uk).  SF, fantasy, horror,
	role-playing game specialist shop.  Good but idiosyncratic selection
	of new and second-hand British and US books.   (Carries all in-print
	UK fantasy and SF.)  Mon-Sat 1000-1800.
McCormack's (Rosemary Lane).  Second-hand and antiquarian books.  Very
	expensive.
Remainder Bookshop (Market St).  Sells remaindered British books very
	cheaply.
University Bookshop (Lancaster University Campus, Bailrigg, Lancaster).
	Good general bookshop.  Also sells CDs and cards.
Waterstones (King St).  See stuff on other Waterstones elsewhere.  Quite
	good general bookshop.

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Subject: Liverpool, England

Forbidden Planet (92 Bold St, L1 4HY, (151)-707-1491).  SF and comics.

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Subject: London, England

In general when people ask about bookshops in London, the only answer they
get is to take the Underground to the Charing Cross area and walk down the
street.  Charing Cross Road runs N/S from the junction of Tottenham Court Rd
to Trafalgar Square.  Tube stations to go to are Tottenham Court Rd
(Northern Line/Central Line) or Leicester Square (Northern/Picadilly/?
Line).  However, the following may be of more specific help.

[Enormous thanks to John Alvey for arranging this geographically and
providing many updates!!]


Charing Cross Road
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Charing Cross Road runs south from where Oxford Street (to the West), New
Oxford Street (to the East), Tottenham Court Road (to the North) and
Charing Cross Road (to the South) meet.  The place is technically called
St. Giles' Circus and is also where you will find Tottenham Court Road tube
station (Northern and Central lines), the Dominion Theatre and the hideous
Centre Point office building.  Charing Cross Road is/was the equivalent of
New York's Fourth Avenue or Paris' Boulevard St. Michel, the place where
bookshops of all sorts are to be found.  Charing Cross Road goes South to
Cambridge Circus (where Shaftesbury Avenue crosses it) and continues South
to Trafalgar Square (location of the National Gallery, National Portrait
Gallery, St.  Martin-in-the Fields and Nelson's column and, incidentally,
the place where mileage to/from London is calculated.)  As well as
Tottenham Court Road, you are within ten minutes' walk of the following
tube stations:  Oxford Circus (Victoria, Bakerloo, Central); Goodge Street
(one stop up from Tottentham Court Road on the Northern Line); Leicester
Square (halfway down Charing Cross Road on the Northern and Piccadilly
lines); Charing Cross (Jubilee, Bakerloo and Northern); Piccadilly Circus
(Piccadilly, Victoria and Jubilee) Charing Cross British Rail

Buses: The following stop at or near Tottenham Court Road Tube Station:  7,
8, 10, 25, 55, 73, 98, 134.  The following go up and/or down Charing Cross
Road: 14, 19, 24, 29, 38.  Note that bus stops in key traffic areas such as
this are lettered.  Each bus stop has a map of the location of the
different bus stops, which buses stop at these stops and which buses go to
and from key destinations.  Take the bus - it's more fun than the tube and
cheaper!  Now if only the capital of the USA could do something
similar....

Carlton House Terrace is one block South of Pall Mall which is the ritzy
street running from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace.  Denmark Street
is off Charing Cross Road to the left (going South) opposite Waterstone's.
Earlham Street is the second street on the right off that part of
Shaftesbury Avenue to the left at Cambridge Circus. Newport Place is a
small street just to the West of Charing Cross Road by Shaftesbury Avenue.
St. Martin's Court is to the left just past Leicester Square tube station.
Cecil Court is the next one on the left after St.  Martin's Court. Strand
runs East from Trafalgar Square.

One person says, "There are quite a few other bookshops along Charing Cross
Road, including some bargain book ones," but another responds, "The
second-hand stores on Charing Cross Road are not impressive though if you
are there...."

Starting from St. Giles' Circus/Tottenham Court Road tube station, going
South (even numbers on the left, odd on the right):

Book Pedlar (148 Charing Cross Rd).  Remainders.  Was Booksmith.
	Open 1200-1900 seven days.
Boookcase (138-140 Charing Cross Rd).  Remainders.  Open Mon-Sat
	1000-2000, Sun 1100-1700.
Zeno (6 Denmark St, WC2H 8LP, 0171-836-2522, FAX same).  "They call
	themselves 'The Greek Bookshop,' but also cover Cyprus, Balkans,
	Turkey, Egypt, and Palestine."
Argents (20 Denmark, 0171-379-3384, FAX 0171-379-3398).  Music store with
	some books and sheet music.
Zwemmer Russian Bookshop (28 Denmark St, WC1, 0171-379-6253, FAX
	0171-240-6975).  Books in Russian and books in English on things
	Russian.
Waterstone's (121-129 Charing Cross Rd, before Sutton Row, 0171-434-4291,
	FAX 0171-437-3319).  "Haven't been there too often--it is a very
	attractive shop and seems to have a good, all-round stock with an
	emphasis on literature and history."  Another poster counters, "They
	have grown the original shop by opening next door and another one a
	few doors away.  Has an excellent stock in film, theatre, and
	literature as well as a very good selection of just about everything
	else.  I would try either here or Books Etc across the road before
	venturing into Foyle's because at least the staff here know what
	they're selling."  Mon-Sat 0930-2000, Sun 1200-1800.
Books Etc (120 Charing Cross Rd opposite Foyle's, Tottenham Court Rd tube).
	Good general stock, with emphasis on fiction and modern literature.
	SF section is also surprisingly good for a non-specialist shop,
	including some US imports.  Lots of other stuff, including a
	reasonable technical section.  Staff helpful, often beyond the call
	of duty.  Takes credit cards, will order books from the US.
	Sometimes open Sunday afternoon.  Branches include: 30 Broadgate
	Circus, EC2M 2QS, tel. 0171-628-8944; 120 Charing Cross Rd,
	WC2H 0JR, tel. 0171-379-6838; 60 Fenchurch St, EC3M 4AQ,
	tel. 0171-481-4425; 176 Fleet St, EC4A 2AB, tel. 0171-353-5939;
	263 High Holborn, WC1V 7EE, tel. 0171-404-0261; 26 James St, Covent
	Garden, WC2E 8PA, tel. 0171-379-6947; 54 London Wall, EC2M 5TR,
	tel. 0171-628-9708; 163 Oxford St, W1R 1TA, tel. 0171-734-8287;
	66 Victoria St, SW1 5LB, tel. 0171-931-0677; 19 Whiteleys of
	Bayswater, W2 4YQ, tel.  0171-229-3865).  The Charing Cross Road
	branch is open Sundays.
Foyle's (119 Charing Cross Rd, after Sutton Row, 0171-437-5660 ["but they
	never answer"], Tottenham Court Road tube).  "Well, this is where
	all the guide books are going to send you--I have yet to find
	someone that doesn't hate the place.  Chaotic--they claim to have
	every book in print, but they never seem able to find them....
	Utterly ridiculous system of classifying by *publisher*--it makes
	browsing a tiresome experience.  Staff are sometimes willing, but
	often unable to help; more often than not they tell you to try
	Dillon's.  Good Penguin section, though."  Another poster points
	out, "Classifying by publisher is not *quite* as stupid as it
	sounds.  The books are delivered by publisher, so this system makes
	it much easier for the staff to get the new deliveries onto the
	shelves.  It's simply another indication that the convenience of
	customers comes very far down Foyle's list of priorities."  A weird
	pay system: you have to leave your books at the service desk, wander
	off in search of a cash desk to pay and get your bill stamped, then
	back for your books.  One poster writes, "Foyle's, while indeed
	awful, has finally given up and since mid-92 accepts credit cards.
	All the rest is, unfortunately, as you describe."  [There are some
	sections by category rather than publisher.]  Also has
	foreign-language books.  Closed Sundays.
Blackwell's (100 Charing Cross Rd).  A branch of the large Oxford bookshop
	opens here fall 1995.
Lovejoys (99B Charing Cross Rd).  Remainders.
Sportspages (Caxton Walk, 94/96 Charing Cross Rd, 0171-240-9604, FAX
	0171-836-0104.  The emphasis is on English soccer and cricket but
	you will find all kinds of sports stuff including a fair amount of
	US imports of baseball, football, hockey and basketball stuff."
	Open Mon-Sun 0930-1900.
Cambridge Circus
Dover Bookshop (18 Earlham, 0171-836-2111, FAX 0171-836-1603).  [going south
	down Charing Cross Road, take the small road that's probably second
	left, counting round anticlockwise (widdershins) from the southern
	part of Charing Cross at the Cambridge Circus junction in the middle
	of Charing Cross Road.  If you're on the correct road, you should go
	past a shop called Orc's Nest more or less immediately.)  The Dover
	Bookshop stock most Dover books, and similar titles.  The owner is
	very helpful and takes credit cards.  (For the forseeable future,
	Cambridge Circus is where "Les Miserables" is on.)
Zwemmer's (24 Litchfield St).  Branch of the store below specializing in
	art, architecture and design.  Litchfield Street is the street just
	before Zwemmer's in Charing Cross Road.  Open Mon-Tue 1000-1830,
	Wed-Fri 1000-1900, Sat 1000-1800.
Zwemmer's (80 Charing Cross Rd, just north of Leicester Sq tube on Ch X Rd).
	Good for art, architecture, cinema.  Open Mon-Fri 0930-1800, Sat
	1000-1800.
al-Hoda Bookstore (76-78 Charing Cross Rd, WC2H OBB, 0171-240-8381,
	FAX 0171-497-0180).  Specializes in books about the Middle
	East/Islamic world.
Oxford University Press Bookshop (72 Charing Cross Rd).  Not as big as
	the flagship shop at Oxford, but certain to carry almost every OUP
	book in print.  The OUP publishes (among other things!) some very
	good philosophy of science books and its reference series is
	unparalleled.  Penguin Shops (Covent Garden and across from Camden
	Town tube stop).  Not bad in a pinch.  Harried staff.  Open Mon-Fri
	0930-1800, Sat 1000-1800.
Murder One (71 Charing Cross Rd, just below Shaftesbury Avenue, Leicester
	Square tube, 0171-734-3483, FAX 0171-734-3429).  Mystery and romance
	at street level, SF in the basement.  No SF merchandise--just books.
	They also seem to have one or maybe two copies of many titles rather
	than dozens of a few.  A lot of them are imports so prices are
	higher than average--but well worth it if you are after that one
	elusive volume.  Probably the best source for new US SF hardbacks.
	Staff is very helpful too.  They have a bookcase of second-hand
	books that are of *very* high quality.  Takes credit cards, will do
	mailorder.  Open Mon-Wed 1000-1900, Thu-Sat 1000-2000.
New Worlds (71-73 Charing Cross Road).  The downstairs section of Murder
	One.  Second-hand SF.
Shipley (70 Charing Cross Rd, 0171-836-4872, FAX 0171-379-4358).  New art
	books.
Silver Moon Book Shop (64-68 Charing Cross Rd, across from Foyle's,
	0171-836-7906).  Stocks all kinds of women's and feminist books.
	They claim they are Europe's largest women's bookshop, but another
	poster describes them as "small, but good."  Open Mon-Wed, Fri-Sat
	1000-1830, Thu 1000-2000.
Any Amount of Books (62 Charing Cross Rd, 0171-240-8140).  Second-hand.
	Open Mon-Sun 1030-1930.
Henry Pordes (58-60 Charing Cross Rd, 0171-836-9031, FAX 0181-886-2201).
	Second-hand.  Open Mon-Sat 1000-1900.
Charing Cross Road Bookshop (56 Charing Cross Rd, 0171-836-3697, FAX
	0171-240-1769).  Second-hand.  Open Mon-Sat 1030-2130, Sun
	1030-2030.
Books for a Change (52 Charing Cross Rd).  New books on environmental and
	related issues.  Open Mon-Fri 1000-1830, Sat 1000-1800.
Quinto (48 Charing Cross Rd, 0171-379-7669, FAX 0171-836-5977).  Second-hand
	books.  Open Mon-Sat 0900-2100, Sun 1200-2000.
Francis Edwards (3 Great Newport St, next door to Quinto, 0171-379-7669, FAX
	0171-836-5977).  Same as Quinto, as it's the same company.  Open
	Mon-Sat 0930-1830.
Guangwha (7 Newport Place, WC2, 0171-437-3737).  New books, primarily in
	Chinese but also a few in English on China.
Dress Circle (57 Monmouth, 0171-240-2227).  They have the largest selection
	of material related to musical on this side of the galaxy.  This
	includes scores, recordings, books, etc.
Motor Books (33 & 36 St. Martin's Court, just off Charing Cross Road, near
	Foyle's and Trafalgar Square, 0171-836-5376, FAX 0171-497-2539).
	"They have the most incredible selection of books relating to
	transportation.  As a train buff, I feel that their railroad (yes,
	I know they'd call it railway :-)) section is the best in the
	world.  Their military, aviation and auto sections are top notch as
	well."  Open Mon-Fri 0930-1730, Sat 1030-1730.

Cecil Court
-----------

"Just off Charing Cross Road, just beyond Leicester Square Underground if
you are going down towards Trafalgar Square, you will find Cecil Court to
the left.  The street consists entirely of second-hand/antiquarian/obscure
books stores, including stores specializing in literature, children's
books, dance, theater, travel, etc. as well as a new Italian bookshop,
carrying both books in Italian and books in English on things Italian.
[http://www.middlebury.edu/~lib/italian.html also has places to order
Italian books.]

Odd numbers are on the right going from Charing Cross Road towards St.
Martin's Lane, even on the left.  Note that there is quite a high turnover
of stores on this street so this may already be inaccurate.  Number 1 is at
the St. Martin's Lane end and number 25 at the Charing Cross Road end.

Stage Door Prints (1 Cecil Court, 0171-240-1683).  Books, prints, photos.
	Open Mon-Fri 1100-1800, Sat 1130-1800.
Witch Ball (2 Cecil Court).  Prints
Storey (3 Cecil Court, 0171-836-3777, FAX 01959-563315).  Prints,
	engravings, especially military and naval.  Open Mon-Sat 1000-1800.
Bell, Book and Radmall (4 Cecil Court, 0171-240-2161, FAX 0171-379-1062).
	Modern Firsts.  Open Mon-Fri 1000-1730, Sat 1000-1630.
St. Martin's (5 Cecil Court).  Prints.
Simon Andrews (6 Cecil Court).  Stamps.
Italian Bookshop (7 Cecil Court, 0171-240-1634, FAX 0171-240-1635).  New
	books in Italian and in English about things Italian.
David Drummond/Pleasures of Past Times (11 Cecil Court).  Books related to
	older forms of entertainment, also older children's books.
P J Hilton (12/14 Cecil Court, 0171-379-9825).  Literature.  Open Mon-Sat
	0930-1930.
Tooley Adams (13 Cecil Court, 0171-240-4406, FAX 0171-240-8058).  Maps and
	atlases.  Open Mon-Fri 0900-1700.
Dance Books (15 Cecil Court, 0171-497-0473).  Dance books.  Open Mon-Sat
	1100-1900.
Travis and Emery (17 Cecil Court, 0171-240-2129, FAX 0171-497-0473).  Used
	music books.  Open Mon-Fri 1000-1800, Sat 1000-1300.
Marchpane (16 Cecil Court, 0171-836-8661, FAX 0171-497-0567).  Used
	children's books.  Open Mon-Sat 1030-1830.
Watkins (19-21 Cecil Court, 0171-836-2182, FAX 0171-836-6700).  A great
	bookshop if you are into the occult and other New-Age-type
	subjects.  Open Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat 1000-1800, Wed 1030-2000, Thu
	1030-1800.
Reg and Philip Remington (18 Cecil Court, 0171-836-9771, FAX 0171-497-2526).
	Used travel books.  Open Mon-Fri 1000-1700.
Nigel Williams (22 Cecil Court).  Modern Firsts, P G Wodehouse, mysteries.
Alan Brett (24 Cecil Court, 0171-836-8222).  Modern Firsts.  Open Mon-Fri
	0930-1700, Sat 0900-1700, Sun 1000-1600.
The Travellers' Bookshop (25 Cecil Court near Leicester Square, off Charing
	Cross Road, WC2N 4EZ, 0171-836-9132, FAX 0171-379-4928).  New and
	used travel books.  Issues catalogs of used/antiquarian guide books.
	Open Mon-Sat 1030-1830.

The public library is further down on the left at 4 Charing Cross Rd.

Institute of Contemporary Arts (12 Carlton House, Terrace Dillons, The Grand
	Buildings, Trafalgar Square, WC2, 0171-839-4411, FAX 0171-839-1797).
	Has a bookshop (as well as a cinema, a theatre, and a gallery.  (The
	bookshop does not require a membership to visit.)  "Lots on
	contemporary art, left-wing, feminist, gay, (mucho alternative),
	great post cards."
Dempsey's (110 Strand).  Remainders.

British Museum
--------------

Starting from Tottenham Court Road tube station and heading East along New
Oxford Street. Great Russell Street runs parallel, one block to the North
and is the street the British Museum is on.  Museum Street is a small
street between Great Russell Street and New Oxford Street/Bloomsbury Way.
Bury Place runs parallel and one block to the East of Museum Street.  Galen
Place and Pied Bull yard are small pedestrian streets off Bury Street.
Bloomsbury Street runs North from New Oxford Street, into Bedford Square
and subsequently becomes Gower Street.  Gower Street is the street running
parallel to Tottenham Court Road and one block East of Tottentham Court
Road.  Malet Street is a small street the other side of Dillon's from Gower
Street.  Sicilian Avenue is a small pedestrian-only street between
Bloomsbury Way and Southampton Row (see section below).  Fitzroy Street is
two blocks West of Tottenham Court Road (i.e., away from Dillon's and the
British Museum) and runs parallel to it.  Whitfield Street is one block
West of Tottenham Court Road and runs parallel to it.  Goodge Street is off
the West side of Tottenham Court Road, by the tube station of the same
name.  Charlotte Place is a small street just off Goodge Street.  Long Acre
starts one block East of Leicester Square (starting at St. Martin's Lane)
and runs to King Street.  King Street runs parallel and two blocks South of
Long Acre and runs into Covent Garden.

Forbidden Planet (71 New Oxford St, east of Charing Cross Road; Tottenham
	Court Road tube, 0171-836-4179, FAX 0171-240-7118).  Comics,
	T-shirts and pins at street level; SF, posters and videos in the
	basement.  They have some reduced hardbacks, marked-down paperbacks
	and sell more-than-two-year-old copies of Asimov's, F&SF, etc. at a
	reasonable price. "The SF stock has gone downhill in recent years
	IMHO, as they seem to have concentrated more on marketing the big
	releases--if you are looking for something specific you are much
	better off going to Murder One (see below) at least in my
	experience."  [Editorial note: this seems to be a world-wide policy,
	as their New York City stores have the same problem.]  "Good for US
	paperbacks, but I've had more luck finding new US hardbacks at
	Murder One".  Some really good SF/fantasy art books.  They also have
	author signings.  Takes credit cards.  Open Mon-Wed, Sat 1000-1800,
	Thu, Fri 1000-1900.
Atlantis Bookshop (49a Museum St, WC1, 0171-405-2120).  The title says it
	all.  They carry new and secondhand books on esoterica, the occult
	and the like.  An essential visit.  Open Mon-Fri 1000-1730, Sat
	1100-1700.
Books from India (45 Museum St, 0171-405-3784, FAX 0171-831-4517).  Mainly
	new books from India, including many not available in the UK/US.
	"They have almost everything one can think of, including Sanskrit
	classics, etc.  A bit expensive if compared with Indian prices but
	incomparably faster." Open Mon-Fri 1000-1730, Sat 1000-1700.
Jack Duncan Basement Bookshop (44 Museum St, WC1, 0171-242-5335, FAX
	0171-242-2978).  Downstairs there are the used book stocks of
	several out-of-town dealers which tend to be good quality but not
	cheap.  Upstairs they sell original cartoons and playing cards with
	fancy designs.  Open Mon-Fri 1200-1600.
Grenville Books (40a Museum St, WC1, TEL/FAX 0171-404-2872).  Good general
	stock of used books, particularly in the field of travel,
	Spain/Portugal/Latin America, women.  Open Mon-Fri 1030-1830,
	Sat-Sun 1100-1700.
Ulysses (40 Museum St, WC1, TEL/FAX 0171-831-1600).  High-priced and
	high-quality Modern First Editions.  Open Mon-Sat 1030-1800,
	Sun 1200-1800.
Ballantyne and Date (38 Museum St, WC1, 0171-242-4249, FAX 0171-430-0684).
	"Used books in the field of art, design, architecture, photography,
	transport.  Drif (see below) considers them the typical 'nouvelle
	cuisine' bookshop, which means 'they have a minimalist stock and
	books you have to have a degree in semiotics to understand the
	importance of.'  I cannot disagree." Open Mon-Sat 1030-1800, Sun
	1200-1800.
Ulysses (31 Museum St, WC1, 0171-637-5862).  Specializing in high-quality
	and high-priced travel, art and local history.  Open Mon-Sat
	1030-1800, Sun 1200-1800.
Roe & Moore (29 Museum St, WC1, 0171-636-4787, FAX 0171-636-6110).  Rare,
	including art, children's and illustrated, though more art than
	anything else.  Open Mon-Sat 1030-1800.
Cinema Bookshop (13-14 Great Russell St, WC1B 3NH, 0171-637 0206).  It's
	a little shop, but packed with movie- and television-related books
	and special items.

The following four stores are more or less opposite the British Museum.

Museum Bookshop (36 Great Russell St, WC1, 0171-580-4086,
	FAX 0171-436-4364).  Books on archeology, the Orient, etc.  Open
	Mon-Fri 1000-1730, Sat 1100-1730.
Gosh Comics (39 Great Russell St, 0171-636-1011).
Arthur Probsthain (41 Great Russell opposite the British Museum, WC1B 3PH,
	TEL/FAX 0171-636-1096).  Secondhand on things Oriental.  Mails
	monthly (approx) short lists of used/antiquarian books for sale (not
	cheap).  Open Mon-Fri 0900-1730, Sat 1100-1600.
Fine Books Oriental (46 Great Russell St, opposite the British Museum,
	WC1B 3PA, 0171-636-6068, FAX 0171-436-6544).  Mainly secondhand
	books on things Oriental.  Open Mon-Fri 0930-1700.
The British Museum (Great Russell St).  Has a good bookshop, especially for
	art and history.
Robert Frew (106 Great Russell St, WC1, 0171-580-2311, FAX 0171-631-3253).
	Antiquarian, especially travel, literature.  Open Mon-Fri 1000-1800,
	Sat 1000-1400.
Bloomsbury Bookshop (12 Bury Place, WC1, 0171-404-7433).  Good general
	stock of used books in the field of literature, travel, music,
	biography, art, philosophy.  Open Mon-Sat 1100-1800, Sun 1300-1700.
Bury Place Rare Books (14 Bury Place, WC1, 0171-404-6869.  Definitely worth
	a visit.  They have a very large stock of old books, some easy to
	find and some piled up in the way old booksellers are wont to do.
	The place is dark and gloomy yet there are good bargains to be
	found if you take your eyeglasses and a flashlight.  Just to
	brighten the store up, the clerk was a chain-smoking punk with
	green (?) hair and rings in various parts of her body.  This store,
	as well as a few others in the neighborhood, also sells old cameras.
	Open Mon-Sat 1100-1800, Sun 1300-1900.
Classic Collection Photo Books (Galen Place).  New and used photo books.
Bloomsbury Workshop (12 Galen Place, WC1, 0171-405-0632).  Bloomsbury
	literature.  Open Mon-Fri 1000-1730.
Gekoski (Pied Bull Yard, WC1, 0171-404-6676, FAX 0171-404-6595).  First
	editions, manuscripts.  Expensive.  Open Mon-Fri 1000-1730.
Unsworth, Rice & Coe (12 Bloomsbury St, 0171-436-9836, FAX 0171-637-7334).
	A pleasant bookshop featuring "secondhand and out-of-print books on
	history & humanities," although they occasionally get large
	shipments of math and science books as well.  Among other things
	they feature classics for a pound (about US$1.50, depending), and a
	wide selection of drama, poetry, film books, etc.  Open Mon-Sat
	1030-1800, Sun 1200-1800.  "And there's a great, inexpensive
	Japanese restaurant across the street."
Dillon's (82 Gower St, WC1, 0171-636-1577, FAX 0171-580-7680, Goodge Street
	tube).  Beautiful, general, moderately helpful staff.  Smaller than
	Foyle's but it more than makes up for it in efficiency.  Excellent
	science and medicine depts, and generally strong on textbooks and
	"recommended reading" in all subjects--this is an academic's
	bookshop.  (It caters for University College that is a block away,
	for Birkbeck College, and for the student population of London at
	large.)  One of the three main technical bookshops in London, and
	easier to find your way round than Foyles.  Also has a reasonable
	SF section (all UK, though), and lots of other stuff.  There is a
	bargain department on the ground floor.  Very knowledgeable staff.
	Accepts credit cards.  "While you're there, visitors should go and
	look at the outside of Senate House (one of the models for Orwell's
	ministries) and on Russell Square, which is where T. S. Elliot
	worked for Faber's."  Also, "the gardens opposite were also the
	scene of several events in John Wyndham's THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS."
	It has a small second-hand department on one of the upper floors of
	Senate House (nearby).  (Other branches at 150-152 Kings Rd, SW3;
	48-52 Kensington High St, W8; 8 Long Acre, WC2; 213 Picadilly, W1;
	St Dunstans Rd, W6; St Mary's Rd, W5; Exhibition Rd, SW7; Lambeth
	Palace Rd, SE1; 37 Upper Berkeley St, W1; Trafalgar Square, WC1.
	Most of these are associated with a college, so are likely to be
	small and have a specialist selection.  For example, the St Dunstan
	one is at the Westminster Medical School, the St Mary one at the
	Polytechnic of West London, the Lambeth one at St Thomas' Hospital,
	and the Exhibition Road one at the Science Museum.  The Dillon's
	near Covent Garden has a large selection of art books.  The Dillon's
	at 8 Long Acre is next door to Stanford's Map Centre and is a
	specialist art/architecture/design bookshop.)  Dillon's on Trafalgar
	Square is large and spacious, but empty of much substance.
University of London Union (Malet St, opposite Dillon's).  They hold a book
	sale every Friday 1100-1800.  Worth a visit.
Swedenborg Society 920 Bloomsbury Way).  Books in various languages by and
	about the philosopher Swedenborg.  Open Mon-Fri 0930-1700.
Skoob Books and Skoob Two (11a-17 Sicilian Avenue between Bloomsbury and
	Southampton Row, 0171-404-3063, FAX 0171-404-4398, near Holborn
	tube station).  ("Skoob" is "books" backwards.)  The one really
	exceptional second-hand bookshop.  They have an *amazing* range of
	technical stuff, including computer science: they obviously
	understand what they're selling here, unlike almost every other
	second-hand dealer in the UK.  "When the old buildings on Charing
	Cross Road were knocked down, the staff at Poole's left to form
	Skoob.  Poole's was at 84 Charing Cross Road and was the subject of
	Helene Hanff's '84 Charing Cross Road,' which is now a book, play,
	musical and probably other things.  Skoob is probably the best
	general second-hand bookshop in London.  As well as selling
	second-hand books, Skoob publishes new books (occult, literature)
	and also produces the essential 'Directory of Secondhand Bookshops
	in the British Isles.'  It will cost you around seven pounds but is
	well worth it."  Open Mon-Sat 1030-1830.
PC Bookshop (11 and 21 Sicilian Ave, WC1A 2QH, on either side of Skoob,
	0171-831-0002, FAX 0171-831-0043).  Modest collection of computer
	literature.  Open Mon-Fri 0930-1800, Sat 1030-1630.
Golden Cockerel (25 Sicilian Ave)e.  Books from selected university presses.
Building Bookshop (26 Store St between Tottenham Court Road and Gower St).
	All sorts of books on remodeling, do-it-yourself, building
	materials, etc.)
French's Theatre Bookshop (52 Fitzroy St, London W1P 6JR, Warren St or
	Great Portland St tube, 0171-387-9373, FAX 0171-387-2161).  They
	have a very large selection of plays, recordings and related
	material.  If you are looking for an obscure play, they have it or
	can get it.  "I believe that they will do mail order as well.
	Credit cards accepted."  Open Mon-Fri 0930-1730.
Pollock's Toy Museum (41 Whitfield).  Yes, it's a toy museum but also has
	books on theater and the like.  Open Mon-Sat 1000-1700.
Countryside Bookshop (39 Goodge, 0171-636-3156, FAX 0171-323-6879).  New
	books on the environment, nature, gardening and the like.  Open
	Mon-Fri 1000-1800, Sat 1100-1700.
Booking Hall (7 Charlotte Pl, 0171-255-2123).  New books on railways and
	railroads.  Open Mon-Fri 1100-1500, 1600-1900; Sat 1100-1700.
Book Warehouse (Tottenham Court Rd (opposite Goodge Street tube station)
	and 120 Southampton Row).  Remainders.  Open Mon-Fri 0930-1900,
	Sat 1000-1900, Sun 1000-1800. 
Stanford's (Long Acre at the back of Charing Cross Road off St. Martin's
	Lane towards Covent Garden, WC2).  World-famous for their maps but
	also selling lots of travel books.
Bookends (135 Long Acre, WC2, 0171-240-0456).  Opposite Stanford's.  "I was
	very impressed with this store.  They claim to sell damaged books
	rather than remainders.  I bought several relatively new hardbooks
	for a fraction of their original price and the only damage was a
	small crease in the cover."  They also have stores in Gloucester,
	Newport, Bristol, Oxford, Marlow, Ealing, Worcester, Plymouth and
	Hay.  Open Mon-Sat 1000-2200. Sun 1400-1900.
Dillon's Art Bookshop (8 Long Acre, WC2, 0171-836-1359).  New books on art,
	design, architecture, etc. but also theater, fiction, poetry, music
	and cinema.  Open Mon-Wed, Fri-Sat 0930-2200, Thu 1000-2200, Sun
	1200-1900.
Africa Centre (38 King St, Long Acre, 0171-240-6649).  Sells African
	artifacts downstairs and Africa-related books upstairs.
Penguin Bookshop (10 The Market, Covent Garden, WC2, 0171-379-7650).  New
	Penguin books.
The Map Shop (Acre Lane, WC2, right beside Covent Garden).  Holds world-wide
	stocks and can get its hands on maps of almost anywhere provided
	they are not security classified.   Has a close working relationship
	with the British Ordnance Survey.

Southampton Row/Holborn
-----------------------

Southampton Row is the large (for London) street that runs parallel to
Tottenham Court Road and is about 10-15 blocks East of it (and about 7-8
blocks East of the British Museum).  It becomes Woburn Place further North,
and then Tavistock Square and then Upper Woburn Place.  Woburn Walk is a
small pedestrian street, just off Upper Woburn Place, which leads to Burton
Street.  Marchmont Street is parallel to Woburn Place and two blocks to the
East.  Leigh Street is off the Northern end of Marchmont Street and leads
into Judd Street.  Parker Street runs parallel and to the South of High
Holborn between Drury Lane and Kingsway.  High Holborn is the Eastern
continuation of New Oxford Street. Euston Road is the Northern boundary of
this section and runs East from Great Portland Street tube station to
King's Cross via Euston and St. Pancras British Rail stations.  Caledonian
Road is the continuation of Euston Road beyond King's Cross (going East).
Portugal Street is a small street off Kingsway just North of the Aldwych
and to the right when you walk from the Aldwych towards Holborn.  Carey
Street is off Portugal Street to the right.

Intermediate Technology Bookshop (103-105 Southampton Row, 0171-436-9761,
	FAX 0171-436-2013).  New books on environmentally sound
	technologies.  Open Mon-Sat 0930-1800.
PBFA Book Fairs (Hotel Russell, Russell Square, WC1).  Every month the
	Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association holds a booksale here on
	Sunday from 1400-1900 and Monday 1030-1900.  It is usually the first
	or second week of the month.  You can get the latest calendar from
	the PBFA, Old Coach House, 16 Melbourn St., Royston, Hertfordshire,
	SG8 7BZ, 01763-248400, FAX 01763-248921.
Eurobooks (39 Woburn Place, TEL/fAX 0171-436-0027).  Antiquarian books.
	"Though they have some nice books, particularly in the basement,
	they always give me the impression that they sell books for people
	who want to have prettily bound books on their shelves, rather than
	for people who want to read books."  Open Mon-Fri 1030-1900.
Woburn Book Shop (10 Woburn Walk, WC1, 0171-388-7278).  General secondhand
	bookshop, particularly strong on cultural issues.  Open Mon-Fri
	1100-1900, Sat 1100-1700.
Chess and Bridge (369 Euston Rd, 0171-388-2404, FAX 0171-905-5626).  New
	books and paraphernalia relating to chess and bridge (the card
	game).  Open Mon-Sat 1000-1800.
Porcupine Bookcellar (5 Caledonian Rd, Kings Cross, N1, 0171-837-4473).
	Secondhand books of a left-wing nature.  Open Mon-Sat 1100-1800.
BMJ Booksellers (Burton St).  New medical books (BMJ stands for British
	Medical Journal).  Now that H K Lewis has gone, the best place for
	medical books.  The store has no street number (even the clerks said
	it did not have one) but it is opposite the Maghreb Bookshop at #45,
	by the top end of Burton Street, where it meets Woburn Walk.
Maghreb Books/Librairie du Maghreb (45 Burton St, 0171-388-1840).  Small
	bookshop stocking primarily new books on the Maghreb countries,
	mainly in English, some in French.  Open Mon-Sat 0930-1800.
Marchmont Bookshop (39 Burton St, WC1, 0171-387-7989).  General used books.
	"This is the only bookshop I have visited more than five times and
	never made a purchase from.  His stock seems predictable and boring,
	at least to me." Open Mon-Fri 1100-1830, Sat 1100-1500.
Collinge and Clark (13 Leigh St, WC1, 0171-387-7105, FAX 0171-833-0335).
	Used books in the field of literature, history and art.  Fairly
	upmarket.  Open Mon-Fri 1100-1830, Sat 1100-1530.
Judd Street Books (102 Judd St, WC1, 0171-833-1900).  Used books in the
	field of history, politics, philosophy, black studies.  Fairly
	academic.  Open Mon-Sat 1100-1900, Sun 1100-1800.
Judd Two Books (82 Marchmont St, WC1, 0171-387-5333).  Mainly new and
	remaindered books in most fields.  Open Mon-Sat 1100-1900, Sun
	1100-1800.
Gay's the Word (66 Marchmont St, 0171-278-7654).  New and used books and
	magazines on gay and feminist topics.  Open Mon-Wed, Fri-Sat
	1000-1800; Thu 1000-1900; Sun 1400-1800.
Dillon's Economist Book Shop (Clare Market, Portugal St next to Houghton
	St, 0171-405-5531).  Very good history, economy, related subjects.
	New books in the front, second-hand in the back.  Just one block
	over on Clement's Street is the shop Dickens used as his model for
	the Old Curiosity Shop, looking just as you would expect it to, so
	it's worth a visit here even if you are not an economist.  Open
	Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri 0930-1800; Wed 1000-1800; Sat 1000-1600.
Wildy and Sons (Lincoln's Inn Archway, Carey St, WC2, 0171-242-5778, FAX
	0171-430-0897).  New and second-hand books in the fields of law and
	criminology.
HMSO Bookshop (49 High Holborn, 0171-873-0011, FAX 0171-831-1326).  Halfway
	along Holborn between Holborn and Chancery Lane Tubes.  Source for
	all UK government publications, white papers, etc.  Has large stock
	and can order all that it hasn't got in stock.  Open Mon-Fri
	0815-1715, Sat 1000-1300.
Parks (244 High Holborn, WC1, 0171-831-9501, FAX 0171-405-9412).  New books
	on business and professional topics.  Near Holborn tube station.
	Open Mon-Fri 0830-1830, Sat 1000-1600.
Guanghwa (32 Parker St, WC2, 0171-831-0137).  See main entry under Charing
	Cross Road.

Oxford Street
-------------

Great Marlborough Street is one block South of Oxford Street near Oxford
Circus tube station, Liberty's and Carnaby Street.  Berkeley Square is in
Mayfair - go South on Bond Street from Oxford Street and take a right at
Bruton Street or go along Piccadilly from Piccadilly Circus towards Hyde
Park and take a right up Berkeley Street.  Of course, if you are visiting
Maggs, you will probably take a taxi.  Langham Place is at the North end of
Regent Street (i.e. North of Oxford Circus) and on the right as you are
going North from Oxford Circus.

Grant and Cutler (55-57 Great Marlborough St next to Carnaby St and
	Liberty's, 0171-734-2012, FAX 0171-734-9272,
	martin@grant-c.demon.co.uk).  The place for foreign-language books,
	including English translations thereof.  Open Mon-Wed, Fri-Sat
	0900-1730; Thu 0900-1900.
Dillons (19-23 Oxford St, W1, 0171-434-9759).  See main entry under British
	Museum/Holborn.
BBC Books (4 Langham Place, W1, 0171-927-4970).  New books relating to BBC
	shows.
Boosey and Hawkes (295 Regent St, W1, 0171-580-2060, FAX 0171-436-2850).
	North end of Regent Street, on the left as you go North from Oxford
	Circus.  New books on music (mainly classical) and sheet music.
	Open Mon-Fri 0900-1800, Sat 1000-1600.
Maggs Bros (50 Berkeley Square).  "The place if you would never buy a book
	for less than US$1000."

Piccadilly Circus
-----------------

Piccadilly is the street to the left of Tower Records when facing Tower
from Piccadilly Circus.  Warwick Street is a small street parallel to
Regent Street and one block to the East near Piccadilly Circus.  Brewer
Street runs parallel to Shaftesbury Avenue, to the East of Regent Street by
Piccadilly Circus.  Golden Square is a block North of Brewer Street, two
blocks East of Regent Street.  Royal Opera Arcade is just off Haymarket (on
the right as you go down from Piccadilly Circus) towards Pall
Mall/Trafalgar Square.

Japan Centre (212 Piccadilly, W1, 0171-439-8035, FAX 0171-287-1082).  Mainly
	books in Japanese but there is a small stock of books in English on
	Japan.  Open Mon-Sat 1000-1930, Sun 1000-1800.
Dillons (213 Piccadilly, W1, 0171-434-9617, FAX 0171-734-0681).  A smaller
	version of the one in Gower Street.  Open Mon-Sat 0930-2000, Sun
	1200-1800.
Bird and Wildlife Bookshop (Royal Opera Arcade, SW1, 0171-839-1881, FAX
	0171-839-8118).
Golden Square Books (16 The Village, Golden Square, W1, 0171-434-3337).  New
	books in the field of fiction, poetry, philosophy, psychology, New
	Age.
European Bookshop (5 Warwick St, 0171-734-5259, FAX 0171-287-1720).  New
	books in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and
	Swedish and books in English for learning these and other European
	languages.  Open Mon-Sat 0930-1800.
Japan Centre (70 Brewer St, W1).  "As the name of the shop was given in
	Japanese I am not sure of the name.  It is open from 12-9 and 12-8
	but as the days were given in Japanese, I do not know what days!
	New books in Japanese only."
Vintage Magazine Shop (39-41 Brewer St, W1, 0171-439-8525).  Old magazines,
	posters, cinema stuff, photos.  Also in Camden Town (see below).
	Open Mon-Sat 1000-1900.
Original Soho Bookshop (12 Brewer St, W1).  Remainders upstairs, porn
	downstairs.

If it's porn you want, this area is the place as every other shop sells porn
here.

North London
------------

St. John's Wood

Park Road runs from Baker Street to Lord's Cricket Ground in St.  John's
Wood.  Dillons is about half way along.

Dillons Business Bookshop, 72 Park Road, NW1. Tel: 0171-723 3902.

Camden Town

Note that Camden High Street becomes Chalk Farm Road.  Offstage is nearer
the Camden Town end rather than the Chalk Farm end.  If you are taking the
tube, make a right out of the tube station and go up, past the food markets
and trendy clothes shops.  Inverness Street is a small street just off
Camden High Street, almost opposite the tube station.  Greenland Place is
just off Camden High Street, just South of the tube station.

Vintage Magazine Shop (7-8 Greenland Place, NW1).  See main entry under
	Piccadilly Circus.
Mega City One Comics (18 Inverness St, 0)71-485-9320).  Near Compendium and
	Offstage.  Better than Forbidden Planet.  Open on Sundays.
Compendium (234 Camden High St between Camden Town and Chalk Farm tube
	stations almost by the bridge over the canal, NW1, 0171-485-8944,
	FAX 0171-267-0193).  A very intellectual and political
	bookshop--quite large and well-organized.  Carries the latest in
	literary and political books, incuding many US imports.  Been around
	since the Sixties.  Go on a Saturday or Sunday to visit Camden Lock,
	one of the biggest markets in London.
Offstage (37 Chalk Farm Road between Camden Town and Chalk Farm Undergound,
	NW1, 0171-485-4996).  Books on the theater.  Open seven days
	1000-1800.

Archway

Beaumont Aviation Literature (656 Holloway Road, N19 3PD, 0171-272-3630).
	Specialist store on aviation (London's biggest?) as you might guess
	by the name.  Archway tube and walk south, quite a long way, but
	worth it if you're into aviation.  Wide stock and also has many
	second-hand titles.  Very helpful staff either by phone or visit.
	Open Mon-Sat 0930-1730.
Fantasy Centre (157 Holloway Road, London N7 8LX, 0171-607-9433, Holloway
	Road or Highbury & Islington tube).  "One of the best selections of
	second-hand SF in the country."  "A great shop not only for
	second-hand SF but also for SF-Collectors.  They regularly print a
	catalogue on vintage stuff and do know most everything about the
	genre.  If you go on a Saturday afternoon you will most likely end
	up chatting away with the owners and their regulars over a cup (or
	three) of tea or coffee."  Will post books worldwide.  Open Mon-Sat
	1000-1800.

Dalston

Centerprise Bookshop (136-138 Kingsland High St, London E8 2NS, British
	Rail North London Line Dalston Kingsland, 0171-254-9632, FAX
	0171-923-1951).  Part of long-established multi-purpose arts and
	community centre.  Specialises in Black writing, childrens books,
	lesbian and gay writing, local history, modern fiction.  Adjoining
	cafe/gallery has good value hot and cold food and drinks.  Open
	Mon-Sat 1030-1730.  

Finsbury Park

New Beacon Bookshop (76 Stroud Green Rd, Finsbury Park, London N4, Finsbury
	Park tube, 0171-272-4889, FAX 0171-281-4662).  "They specialise in
	Caribbean, African, African-American, Black British and Black
	European writings and stock a wide range of materials including
	novels, poetry, plays, cultural studies, literary criticism, women's
	studies, history, politics, music and children's books.  The staff
	are friendly and welcoming--and extremely knowledgeable about their
	subjects."  Mon-Sat 1030-1800.
Bookmarks (265 Seven Sisters Rd, Finsbury Park, N4, 0181-802-6145).
	Left-wing interest.

Friern Barnet

Military History Bookshop (2 The Broadway, Friern Barnet Road, London
	N11 3DU, 0181-368-8568 (call ahead before stopping by)).
	Nearest tube is Arnos Grove (Piccadilly line).  Outstanding
	selection of military history.  Easy to get to by bus or
	Underground, but call ahead to make sure they're there first.  They
	have a quarterly catalog.  (The contributor adds, "It is spelled
	'Friern' even though that looks wrong; I checked twice. :-)).

Highgate

Ripping Yarns (355 Archway Rd, Highgate, N6, 081-341-6111).  Just next to
	Highgate tube (Northern Line), also 43, 134 (from Tottenham Court
	Road tube) and 135 (from Oxford Circus) bus lines.  Monty Python
	fans will recognize the name of the comedy series Michael Palin did
	immediately after Monty Python.  Palin and fellow-Python Terry Jones
	were present at the opening of this store but are not owners.  Stock
	is reasonably-priced, general second-hand, but with a specialty of
	old British children's books (i.e., ripping yarns).  Open Mon-Fri
	1030-1730, Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1130-1630.

Kentish Town

Hellenic Bookservice (91 Fortess Rd, NW5, 0171-267-9499). One of the places
	for books in Greek or about things Greek.    MOved from Charing
	Cross Road.
Owl Bookshop (across from Kentish Town branch library, Kentish Town road).
	Near the tube stop of same name, head south on the road, right side
	of st.  Good and interesting collection, especially British history.
	The library's not bad either.

Muswell Hill

Childrens Bookshop (29 Fortis Green Rd, Muswell Hill, N10, 0181-444-5500).
	New childrens' books.

Stamford Hill

Hebrew Booksellers (82 Dunsmore Rd, N16, 0181-800-5863).  Books of Jewish
	interest.

Tottenham

UPG Christian Bookshop (328 High Rd, Tottenham, N5, 0181-365-1788, FAX
	0181-365-1311).

South London
------------

Pathfinder Books (47 The Cut, SE1, 0171-401-2409).  Left-wing books.  The
	Cut is near Waterloo.  Open Mon 1600-1800, Tue-Thu 1700-1900, Fri
	1600-1900, Sat 1000-1800.  (Yes, only open in the evening during the
	week.)
Horseman's Bookshop (1 Lower Grosvenor Place, SW1, 0171-834-5606).  Near
	Victoria Station in an area notably devoid of both bookshops and
	horses.
Padre Pio (264 Vauxhall Bridge Rd, SW1, 0171-834-5363).  Catholic books.
Gloucester Road Bookshop (123 Gloucester Road near Gloucester Road
	Undergound).  A good, general secondhand bookshop.
Al Kashkool (56 Knightsbridge, SW1, 0171-235-4240, FAX 0171-235-9305). New
	books of Arab interest, many in Arabic.
Museum of the Moving Image/National Film Theatre (Waterloo Rd, Southbank,
	0171-928-3535 (Museum)/0171-928-3232 (NFT).  Near Waterloo tube and
	British Rail station.  You can also walk across Hungerford Bridge
	just South of Charing Cross British Rail station and Trafalgar
	Square, which is fun.  MOMI has a gift and bookshop, but you must
	pay to see the museum to get into the bookshop.  NFT has a bookshop,
	and you don't need to be a member to get into the bookshop.  Open
	daily 1000-1800 daily including Bank Holidays (closed Christmas Eve,
	Christmas Day and Boxing Day).
Harrington Bros. Antiquarian Booksellers (The Chelsea Antique Market, 253
	Kings Road, London SW3 5EL, 0171-352-5689/1720, FAX 0171-823-3449).
	Issues catalogs of travel books.  Open Mon-Sat 1000-1800.
At The Sign Of The Dragon (131 Sheen Lane, SW144, 0181-876-3855, FAX
	0181-876-1167; Mortlake BR station and walk south).  Run by Richard
	and Marion van der Voort, is a small shop with a good selection of
	titles.  They rival (often beat) Forbidden Planet in early stocking
	of titles, and are happy to reserve and special order books.  "A lot
	more friendly than FP!" Will ship worldwide.
Hatchards (2 Brook St, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey KT1 2HA, about 12 miles
	South West of central London, 0181-546-7592;
	hatchards@kingston.ac.uk or dillons@kingston.ac.uk).  An academic
	bookshop serving Kingston University and other institutions in the
	Surrey and South West London area.  Part of the Dillons, Pentos
	group (hence the dual email address).  Will post books worldwide
	and accepts credit cards (Visa, Master Card and Amex).  The email
	address is that of one employee's husband, so when they are on
	holiday, things will take longer; however, as of 3/95, that is being
	corrected.  There is also some take-over of Hatchards/Dillons by
	another company, so things are rather vague now.  (Hatchard's main
	branch is at 187 Piccadilly, not far from Piccadilly Circus.)
The Open Book (10 King St, Richmond, 0181-940-1802).  Opposite the Lion and
	Unicorn.  General bookshop.
Lion and the Unicorn (19 King St, Richmond).  Children's bookshop.  "Not a
	vast stock, but a good range and very helpful staff.
Parks (119 London Rd, SE1, 0171-928-5376, FAX 0171-261-9536).  See main
	entry under British Museum/Holborn.  Near Elephant and Castle tube.

East London
-----------

Freedom (84b Whitechapel High St, E1, 0171-247-9249).  Aldgate East Tube.
	Anarchist books.
Genesis (188 Old St, EC1, 0171-250-1868).  New Age and environment books.
Parks (11 Copthall Ave, EC2, 0171-638-1991, FAX 0171-638-1594).  See main
	entry under British Museum/Holborn.  Near Bank tube.
Bankers Books (17 St. Swithins Lane, EC4, 0171-929-4306, FAX 0171-929-4301).
Dillons (Barbican Centre, Silk St, EC2, 0171-629-8206).  See main entry
	under British Museum/Holborn.
Wisdom Books (402 Hoe St, E17, 0181-520-5588).  Books on Eastern religions.

West London
-----------

Al-Saqi (26 Westbourne Grove, W2, 0171-229-8543).  It's about equidistant
	between Bayswater tube (on the Circle line) and Royal Oak (on the
	Metropolitan Line) but ten minutes walk from both.  New books on
	Arab issues, Islam, about half in Arabic and half in English.
	Open Mon-Sat 1000-1800.
The Riverside Studios (Crisp Rd, W6, by the River Thames in Hammersmith,
	just down from the flyover).  Hammersmith tube (Metropolitan,
	Piccadilly and District.) They have a bookshop as well as a cinema,
	a theatre and a gallery.
Iranian Bookshop (2a Kensington Church Walk, W8, 0171-937-5087).  Near High
	Street Kensington tube.
Travel Bookshop (13 Blenheim Crescent, W11, Ladbroke Grove tube
	(Metropolitan), 0171-229-5260).  Carries new and secondhand travel
	books.  Open Mon-Fri 1000-1800, Sat 1000-1730.
Cook Book Shop (4 Blenheim Crescent, W11, 0171-584-2840, FAX 0171-823-9259).
Modern Books (15-21 Praed St, Edgware Road tube (Metropolitan, District
	and Bakerloo), W2 1NP, 0171-402-9176, FAX 0171-724-5736).  Less
	than 100 yards from Edgware Road tube.  Excellent technical bookshop
	with very wide stocks, very easy to get around, helpful staff.
F E Whitehart (40 Priestfield Road, London, SE23, 0181-699-3225, FAX
	0181-291-1605).  The best dealer in second-hand mathematics books in
	London.  He runs the business from home and you have to phone for an
	appointment (warning: he's deaf, and you go through either a
	switchboard or a voice recognizer).

Miscellaneous London Comments:

There are also a few bookshops in Oxford Street, near Tottenham Court Road
tube station.  And don't forget the museum bookshops.  For
oriental/historical books, try opposite the British Museum (a reasonably
short walk from Tottenham Court road tube).  "You can have a pleasant day
out looking round the bookshops and/or the British museum.  There are quite
a few restaurants and fast food outlets around.  The booksellers in this
are put out a leaflet called 'Antiquarian and Secondhand Booksellers near
the British Museum' which you can get, free of charge, from any of the
bookshops or by writing, with a SASE, to Janet Nassau, Bloomsbury
Booksellers' Guide, 46 Great Russell St., London, WC1B 3PA."  [I find it
interesting that the British Museum is the only museum outside of New York
that I can tell you the name of the street it's on.]

There are a couple of French bookshops near the South Kensington tube stop,
on a small street off Old Brompton Road.  There are Chinese bookshops in
Chinatown and Soho and some good black bookshops in Brixton.  For ethnic
categories in general see the references in the "Guide to Ethnic London."

Away from Charing Cross Road, there is a second-hand book market on
Saturdays just by the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank, under Waterloo
Bridge.


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Subject: Ludlow, Shropshire, England

A lovely little town that looks like English towns are supposed to look.
In the town center, no building is newer than fifty years old and several
date from the medieval period, many are half-timbered black and white,
there is a ruined Norman castle, a Norman church and a market that was old
when the poet A E Housman wrote about it.  It has lots of antique shops
and, most importantly, lots of bookshops.  It is accessible by British
Rail.  Two leaflets are available from various stores in town:  "Bookshops
in Ludlow" and "Ludlow Business Map", the latter, of course, covering not
only bookshops but a variety of other stores.  Both have helpful maps.

If you enter from Shrewsbury by car you can park at the bottom of Corve
Street and walk up.  The order of the stores is given as though you have
done so. If you enter from Hereford and/or park in the car park behind the
castle, reverse the order.

Books and Chattels (106 Corve St, 01584-876191, FAX 01584-876287).  Good
	general selection of used books.  Open Mon-Wed, Fri-Sat 1000-1700.

Just past Books and Chattels to the left is Station Drive.
Ludlow Station is about 100 yds up on the left.

Peter J. Hadley (132 Corve St, 01584-874441, FAX 01584-873029).  Good stock
	of used books, specifically architecture, modern firsts, gardening.
	Open Mon-Sat 1000-1700.
Garrard Antiques (139a Corve St).  Primarily antique furniture but they did
	have a few nice used books upstairs in the rear.
Offa's Dyke (5 The Bull Ring, 01584-873854).  At the top of Corve
	Street/Bull Ring, in the little alley to the right.  Small but good
	general stock of used books.  To avoid the jokes (Drif does not),
	Offa's Dyke is the large earthworks the Anglo-Saxon King Offa built
	to keep the Welsh out.  Open Mon-Sat 0930-1700.
Red Balloon Book Shop (4 Old St, 01584-872149).  Old Street is the
	continuation of Corve Street.  General new books.  Open Mon-Sat
	0900-1700.
Ross's Books and Music (9 Church St, 01584-878119).  Small street leading
	into the market from the church.  Remainders and CDs.  Open Mon-Sat
	0900-1700.
Castle Bookshop (5 Castle St, 01584-872562).  By the market.  General new
	books, with good stock of local interest books.  Open Mon-Sat
	0900-1730.

The Market operates Mon, Wed, Fri, and Sat and has a couple of stalls
selling used books.

K W Swift (56 Mill St, 01584-878571).  Mill Street is off Castle Square to
	the left as you face the castle.  Somewhat upmarket used book,
	print and map store, with stock of several dealers.  Open Mon-Sat
	1000-1700.


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Subject: Malvern, County of Hereford and Worcester, England

Malvern is a pretty little town, nestled at the foot of the Malvern Hills
and famous for being the birthplace and home of the composer, Edward Elgar,
one of the Three Choirs' Festivals towns (held in the old priory) and
having several iron-age forts in the Malvern Hills.  It is accessible by
British Rail (get off at Great Malvern, not Malvern Link.)  Note, if you
are using Drif for directions, all of his directions are inaccurate.  All
bookshops carry material relating to the local area and to Elgar.  Several
antique shops as well.

Beacon Books (35 Worcester Rd).  Top of Abbey Road and to the right.
	General new books.
Keith Smith Books (32 Belle Vue Terrace, 01684-566169).  Located on the
	terrace at the top of the hill from Abbey Road (to the left).  Good
	stock of used books, especially local history.  Open Mon-Sat
	1000-1700, Sun 1200-1700.
Malvern Bookshop (Priory Walk, 7 Abbey Road, 01684-575915).  It's just by
	the back entrance to the priory.  Very good stock of used books in a
	variety of fields at reasonable prices.  Open Mon-Sat 0915-1700.
Priory Books (Church Walk, 01684-560258).  It's on a little street off Abbey
	Road, the other side from the priory, next to Somerfield
	Supermarket.  Good stock of used books, especially literature, local
	history, cricket.  Open Tue-Sun 1000-1245 and 1400-1700.


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Subject: Newcastle Upon Tyne, England

Bookhouse (Ridley Place).  "Small, with quite a good selection of women's
	books in addition to postcards, posters, calendars, some ethnic arty
	things and a cafe in the basement which I've never tried but the
	coffee always smells good."  Nice to browse in.
Dillons (Blackett St; Monument Metro).  Usual wide selection for this chain
	bookshop on four floors.
Forbidden Planet  (59 Grainger, NE1 5JE, (191)-261-9173).  SF and comics.
Thornes (Barras Bridge/Haymarket; Haymarket Metro). Not as good as Dillons
	or Waterstones.  Usually good selection of text books since the
	University and Schools seem to order through it.  They always
	hand-write receipts.
Waterstones (Grey St; Monument Metro).  Usual wide selection for this chain
	bookshop on three floors.

[This part contributed primarily by Caroline Shield
(Caroline.Shield@newcastle.ac.uk).]

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Subject: Norwich, England

Peter Crowe (75 & 77 Upper St. Giles).  Books on three floors, mostly
	quality stuff (no paperbacks).  Good and quite extensive selection.
J. R. & R. R. Ellis (St. Giles). Mostly paperbacks.  "I was impressed
	by a good selection of detection stories."
Harlequin Bookshop (54 St. Benedicts).  A rather smallish bookshop, with
	good selection of paperbacks.  Quite a large section of women
	writers, plenty of SF and crime.
Jarrolds (on the market square).  The biggest bookshop for general new
	stock.
Scientific Anglian (St. Benedicts).  The place for secondhand books--really
	big and with a huge range.  You need a good head for heights to get
	at the stuff on the upper shelves and had better not be allergic to
	dust.  "The above is quite correct.  The proprietor knows where to
	find the stuff.  So you better enquire as the general lay-out of the
	store is rather chaotic.  There is a second floor with hardcovers
	which is not open to the public.  Access on request (although I did
	not check due to lack of time)."  Closed Monday and Thursday
	mornings, and all day Tuesday.
The Tombland Bookshop (8 Tombland).  Good selection of hardcovers on two
	floors, with an amazing range of subjects: e.g., a section on
	railways.  Very few paperbacks.  Apparently mail orders are also
	done.
Waterstones (not far from the Market Square).

There are also some bookstalls on Market Square.


Sheringham, England (30 km north of Norwich on the coast):

Peter's Bookshop (19 St. Peter's Rd) and
Peter Pan Bookshop (5 The Courtyard, Station Rd).  "These two belong
	together (a five-minute walk apart), with Peter's handling pre-1980,
	Peter Pan later books.  Considering the situation of the place the
	choice is rather incredible.  Peter's is crammed with paperbacks and
	a good selection of hardcovers.  Most impressive.  Peter's is the
	first choice for paperbacks, whilst Peter Pan is the place to look
	for the not-really-new-anymore hardcover bestseller."

Holt, England (30 km north-west of Norwich):

Simon Gough Books (3 Fish Hill). A bookshop on three floors in a very
	small town with a surprising selection of quality hardcovers on a
	wide range of subjects.  Also a few paperbacks available.

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Subject: Nottingham, England

Forbidden Planet (129 Middle Walk, Broadmarsh Center, NG1 7LN,
	(115)-958-4706).  SF and comics.

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Subject: Oxford, England

? (the High Street, further down than Sanders).  "Rather aristocratic and
	expensive."
Artemis Books (Cowley Rd).   "Reasonable prices, good selection for a 
	smallish shop, interesting piano music, thoroughly nice.
	Unfortunately, when I was last in Oxford, the lady running it was
	trying to sell the shop.   Investigate while you can, highly
	recommended. ***Warning:  Weird opening hours, tends to shut for
	lunch.***"
Bebop (George St near Pizza Hut).  "Overpriced, especially the records,
	which are a joke.  Interesting stuff, if you are prepared to pay
	over the odds."
Blackwell's (Broad St, 0865 792792, FAX 0865 791438,
	http://www.blackwell.co.uk/bookshops/).  Someone said earlier that
	Blackwell's used to be the single best technical bookshop they have
	ever been to.  Now they write, "Unfortunately, it is just not so
	any more.  I was there in July 95.  The selection in mathematics
	and especially computer science was abysmal.  'Computers' was
	mostly 'DOS for Dummies,' etc.  Gone were all the Springer-Verlag
	Lecture Notes in Computer Science ("They stay on the shelf too
	long.") and other academic/scientific titles.  The selection of
	'Dummies' books was about like Bookstop here in Austin.  Math has
	gone down too.  Even philosophy is bad.  Many 'quality paperbacks'; 
	ery few hardbacks.  I could not get the Handbook of Philosophical
	Logic vol. II or vol. III there.  In years past, I had gotten vol.
	I.  I think Blackwell's is trying to expand into a chain, and this
	decline in quality is the natural corollary."  Whether the
	following is still accurate I don't know: "And not surprisingly it
	has large and strong departments for all the other academic
	specialities.  The main shop for a while was the largest in the
	world; the Norrington Room is the largest single room for selling
	books in the world.  Blackwells apparently also has most of the
	world's library trade."  Also has various second-hand sections,
	foreign-language books, and the following special stores, also on
	Broad Street: Children's Bookshop Art and Poster Bookshop (postcards
	of art too), Paperback Bookshop (and role-playing games and books on
	cassette), and Map and Travel bookshop (stocks maps of all of Europe
	and much of the rest of the world.  Often missed is the rare books
	and special editions that Sir Basil Blackwell collected.  This is
	now in the basement of the Music Shop, in the city centre on
	Holywell Street (see below).
Blackwell's Rare Books (38 Holywell St, Oxford OX1 3SW, 0865-792792,
	FAX 0865-248833).  The atmosphere is fairly rarified and country
	house-y, all lockable bookcases and high prices.  They specialise in
	modern first editions and produce their own catalogue.
Book Bargains (2 St. Ebbe St).  Pretty good academic section for a
	remaindered bookshop.
Bookshop on the Plain (cross Magdaelen Bridge and start up the Cowley Rd;
	it's immediately on your left).  Rather slow turnover, and
	expensive with it.
Dillons (corner of Broad St).  Large shop.  Tries to compete with Blackwells
	and doesn't really carry it off.
The Inner Bookshop (Magdalen Road [follow Cowley Road out of Oxford, turn
	right after Ss Mary and John Church).  Probably Oxford's best
	collection of "alternative" books.  "Might carry Irish stuff for all
	the wrong reasons, I suppose, but being a Tory I wouldn't know :-)."
The Little Bookshop (The Covered Market).  "Tiny, nondescript prices, lots
	of Marxist and socialist books, reasonable English Literature
	section, some remainders.  The proprietor is so grumpy that it is
	quite entertaining, and he wouldn't even buy my copy of *Capital*!"
Museum of Modern Art Bookshop.  "Art books and a witty and informed
	selection of the kinds of fiction, poetry, philosophy, art theory,
	literary theory, etc., that denizens of the Museum of Modern Art
	like to buy.  More Baudrillard than Blackwell's.  Tantalizingly
	close to Sainsburies."
Music Shop (Holywell St).  Part of Blackwells.  Sells sheet music and CDs
	and cassettes (almost exclusively classical) as well as books on
	music.  It also sells tickets for many of the concerts in Oxford.
	The staff are very knowledgeable: most of the permanent staff have
	degrees in music and are active in performing music.  They also
	have their own mail-order department (ext 4452) for CDs and sheet
	music.
Oxfam Bookshop (St. Giles).  Pretty good for a charity shop, and of course
	very cheap.  Always worth looking, no rubbish.  The main Oxfam (two
	doors down from Thornton's) occasionally has worthwhile books, too.
Rosenberg (Broad St, next door to Thornton's).  Antiquarian.
Sanders (104 High Street).  Secondhand literary and history books.
Thornton's (11 Broad St, Oxford OX1 3AR, a few doors down from Dillons,
	01865-242939, FAX 01865-204021, http://www.demon.co.uk/thorntons).
	One poster writes, "Look out for Thornton's as it's *dear*," but
	another says, "True, but not as dear as Waterfields."  Gives a good
	price for secondhand books.  Mostly secondhand, but new books
	sneakily mixed in at full price.  Very good selection.
Titles (Turl St).  "A bit expensive, smallish stock, but can be forgiven
	since they are so polite and donnish.  Bargains downstairs."
Waterfield's (36 Park End St).  Large second-hand bookshop.  Good philosophy
	section.  The antiques emporium just before it and the Jam Factory
	over the road by the traffic lights also house minor booksellers
	amongst their other denizens.  "Stuffy, overpriced philosophy
	section, if you ask me!  Very, very overpriced in general.
	Sometimes has review copies, which is worthwile.  Probably the only
	bookshop in the world with the temerity to include Sir Arthur
	Quiller-Couch as *literary theory*.  They constantly advertise
	100,000 books, new stock, discounts, etc., but are always exactly
	the same.  Mind you, I bought the *proofs* of a book by Derrida
	there before it came out, so I'm not complaining too much."

"There is a book market on Fridays in the basement of St Michael's Church on
the corner of Cornmarket and Broad Street.  Good, cheap, interesting,
varies from week to week.  Sometimes there are records as well.  Occasional
bookmarkets on St Michael's Street as well which have many of the same
traders as the Friday market, but are larger.  Worthwhile."

"The little (tiny) bookshop in the Old Jam Factory is extraordinary for 
its size, very cheap and with a surprisingly good philosophy section!"

Further out there is a Bookshop at Oxford Brookes University in Headington
and at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

You can get a leaflet from most of the secondhand stores about the
antiquarian and secondhand bookstores in Oxford.

Opening hours for all the city centre shops are Monday-Saturday 09h-18h
(opens 9:30h Tuesdays). Open several Sundays during the tourist seaason.

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Subject: Ramsgate, England

Michael's Bookshop (King St, opposite Plains of Waterloo). Secondhand books.

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Subject: Reigate, England

Reigate Galleries (46 Bell).  A good choice of secondhand books with plenty
	of paperbacks.

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Subject: Saffron Walden, England

Lankester Antiques and Books (Church & Market Hill, 01799-522685).  Plenty
	of choice of secondhand books on all subjects and price ranges.
Oxfam Bookshop (George St).

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Subject: Stratford, England

Chaucer Head (Chapel St).  Good literary books, particularly Shakespeare.
Paper Moon (in the Antiques Arcade at 4 Sheep St).  Small but quite good.
Robert Vaughan (Chapel St).  Good literary books, particularly Shakespeare.
National Trust Bookstore.
W H Smith's.

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Subject: Twyning (Gloucestershire), England

Kenneth Fergusson Books (at the Book Room, the Post Office, Twyning GL20
6DF).  Puts out "Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookshops in and
Around the Cotswolds."

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Subject: Cardiff, Wales

Forbidden Planet (5 Duke St, CF1 2AY, (122)-222-8885).  SF and comics.

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Subject: Hay-on-Wye, Wales

Anyone who is interested in rare second-hand books in the UK may find it
worth travelling to the remote (by UK standards) small town of Hay-on-Wye,
on the English-Welsh border.  Somehow, this has become the second-hand book
capital of the UK, with probably about six large shops and any number of
smaller ones.

"The Welsh Booksellers' Association puts out 'Antiquarian and Secondhand
Booksellers in Wales.'  Hay-on-Wye is just over the border near Hereford and
Leominster (pronounced Lemster) and is a picturesque little town devoted
entirely to bookselling.  There are around thirty bookstores, including the
former cinema and the former firehouse.  Quality at Hay goes up and down but
this year (1994) it was very good.  The Hay booksellers put out 'Secondhand
and Antiquarian Booksellers and Printsellers' to guide you around.  Contact
Hay Tourist Information Bureau, Oxford Road, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford, HR3 5DG.
(Yes, the postal address is England even though they are in Wales.)"

Buses run to Hay from Hereford and Brecon.  Early closing day is Tuesday.
Most of the bookshops do stay open on Tuesday afternoons but a few close as
do some other stores.

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Subject: Miscellaneous UK notes

See Edinburgh, Scotland, for further details on Smiths, Waterstone's and
John Menzies.

Government Bookshops:  These are situated in a few of the major urban areas.
They are exactly what they say they are and sell official government
publications of all sorts such as Acts of Parliament, Government Statistics,
Official Reports, Advisory Publications and the like.  A very important
source for researchers and students as well as for those involved in
business, commerce, etc.

Most of the Oxfam Shops in the UK have some secondhand books--if the town
doesn't boast of a separate Oxfam Bookshop.  The same is true of many other
charity shops as well.

The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association, as well as holding bookfairs
at the Hotel Russell in London (see under British Museum above) also hold
fairs all over the country.  In September 1995, for example, they had fairs
in Norwich, Exeter, Ulverston, Scarborough, York, Wilton, Swansea, Kew,
Cambridge, Sherborne and Stamford as well as two in different parts of
London.  You can get a free annual calendar from them at PBFA, Old Coach
House, 16 Melbourn St., Royston, Herts, SG8 7BZ. Tel: 01763-248400.  FAX:
01763-248921.  Their information line, which gives recorded details of
forthcoming fairs, is 01763-249212.

Finally, you might want to look for DRIF'S GUIDE TO THE BOOKSHOPS OF
ENGLAND.  Drif is an expert on bookshops and spends his time traveling the
country looking for bargains so he knows his bookshops.  A new edition of
DRIF'S GUIDE TO THE SECONDHAND BOOKSHOPS of the British Isles has recently
(summer 1995) been published.  It costs #9.95.  Though Drif has amazingly
visited virtually all the bookshops he mentions--and by public transport at
that--you should take both his factual comments and, in particular, his
opinions with a large pinch of salt.  Drif is a character, one of those
eccentrics like Basil Fawlty of FAWLTY TOWERS that Americans like to think
are typical of all the English.  The opening words of his guide are "They
[the secondhand bookshops] are dreadful, you are wasting your money buying
this guide.  It will only tell you how dreadful they are in more detail."
He proceeds to castigate virtually every secondhand bookshop as well as the
media, politicians, British Rail and lots of others.  Some of it is very
funny ("If only the owner was as sober as her books" is one comment), much
of it libelous, some of it obscene, all of it opinionated.  Buy the book to
find out where the bookshops are, for a good laugh and to confirm your
views of how eccentric the Brits are, but do not follow his
recommendations, beware of his directions and ignore his indications of
when the stores are open.  If you want accuracy, buy the factual but more
sober SKOOB DIRECTORY OF SECONDHAND BOOKSHOPS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

People interested in books published in Britain may also want to know
about the following:  THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE MAGAZINE (12 colour review
magazines a year) offers an ordering service available to subscribers
only.  Books published in Britain and in stock with the publisher can be
ordered for a research fee plus shipping and handling (plus the cost of
the book, of course).  Books reviewed in THE GUIDE are not subject to a
research fee and are usually available from GBG's own stock. Further
details can be gotten by contacting them at THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE, 24
Seward Street, London EC1V 3GB; Telephone Order Line
0171-490-9905; Telephone Customer Service 0171-490-9900; FAX 0171-490-
9908.  [Thanks to Christopher P Salter, chris@loncps.demon.co.uk
for this information. He wishes to make clear he has no connection with
THE GUIDE.]

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