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Booksellers, Booksearch and Area Guide links are limited to those that are UK based, with independent websites, prominently show their permanent postal address (not a PO Box number) and telephone contact details; and offer the accepted terms of trade for bookselling. We do not regard those with 'home pages' provided by large bookselling sites as independent websites.

The following includes descriptions provided by the booksellers themselves.

A Book for all Reasons
Medium general stock of collectable and out-of-print books with emphasis on first half 20th Century popular fiction, Royal Navy (mainlyWW2 and esp. Royal Naval Patrol Service and Coastal Forces), Norfolk and Suffolk Topography and Local History. Member PBFA and ibooknet.

Lesley Aitchison
Manuscripts, maps, photographs, documents, engravings, ephemera etc. relating to the local history of: Cornwall -- Devon -- Dorset -- Gloucestershire -- Somerset -- Wiltshire

Alternatives Women's Books
Books by or About Women - Fiction and Non fiction from Art, Autobiographies, Feminism to Health, Spirituality and Women's Studies: Includes Novels - Adventure, Romance, Sci-fi, Lesbian, Detective to Short Stories.

Ambra Books (Ivor Cornish)
Buying and Selling Antiquarian and Secondhand Books, relating to Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire and issue regular catalogues. The catalogues contain a wide range of subjects relating to each county, and include works on history, (local, industrial, mining and social) topography, genealogy, archaeology, geology, agriculture and natural history.

abook4all (formerly Goldenbks)
Online only, specialist rare bookstore and antiquarian library consultants. Established buyers and sellers of quality leather bound and out of print books.

Brian Annesley
Books of Scottish interest. Books on all aspects of Scottish Life, Literature, History, Clans, Sport and Culture.

Ian Barfield Books
Suppliers of out of print and second hand academic books, especially philosophy and politics to libraries, academics and collectors worldwide.

Baggins Book Bazaar
The largest rare and secondhand bookshop in England - amongst huge and constantly changing general stock are large sections devoted to Natural History, Biography, Fine Art, Foreign Travel and Fiction. Book Search service is free with no obligation to buy and extremely thorough and prompt.

Beckham Books
Specializing in theology and religious books including bibles and prayer books but also with a wide range of other subjects with over 14,000 books online and thousands of additional books on our shelves. Member PBFA and ibooknet.

Peter Bell
Antiquarian and secondhand booksellers specialising in antiquarian and scholarly books on the humanities, especially English History, Literature and Biography; Scottish History, Literature and Philosophy

Bertram Rota Ltd
A long-established London bookdealer specialising in Modern First Editions, Arts and Architecture and Private Press Books; members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.

Martin Bott
Specialist dealers in Transport and Industrial History Books and Ephemera (especially Railways, Buses, Canals, Mining, Steam Engines and business history). Bookshop in Horwich, Bolton, Lancs (M61 Jct6)

Richard Booth's Bookshop Ltd.
Richard Booth founded the world's first Book Town at Hay-on-Wye in 1961.The idea has caught on and now there are seventeen Book Towns in various stages of development all over the world. Centrepiece of Hay-on-Wye is Richard's Castle at Hay, a magnificent pile dating from 12th C and incorporating the Hay Castle Bookshop.

Brockwells Books
Brockwells specialise in rare and Antiqurian books and if you cannot find the book you want Brockwells will search places that the Internet can't reach, to find them for you.

Brown Studies
Working with books since the early 60’s, Brenda and Mike Brown run an exclusively internet/mail order business with over 25,000 books in stock covering every subject known to man with special interests of gardening, herbs, ecology, construction, diy, donkeys, Miss Read and John S Goodall, and also a range of texts used by students.

Nicholas & Helen Burrows
Specialising in signed First Editions of the best contemporary British and International fiction

Clarebooks.co.uk
Online store selling second-hand books, non fiction books, out of print books, used books and rare books with an affiliated site specialising in biography and autobiography.

The Children's Bookshop
With a stock in the region of 15,000 books we cater not only for children but also for adult collectors, teachers and researchers. For collectors we can offer a variety of books and annuals in most areas, Girls/Boys school,W E Johns, R Crompton, D C Thompson, among others. We also carry a selection of older illustrated books, dating from the 1920s and earlier. Our speciality is twentieth century fiction.

Countrybooks (Jim Bell)
A selection of secondhand and antiquarian books on countryside subjects, including cottage life and living, self sufficiency, country pursuits including fishing and shooting, and general life 'out of town'.

Countryman Books
Specialist dealers in rare and out of print books on Fishing, Shooting, Dogs and Horses. P.B.F.A.members.

Cusack Books
We are Internet/mail-order based and specialize in TV-related titles from Andy Pandy to Z Cars via Bewitched, Monty Python and Star Trek. We also offer out of print rock music titles.

Daddymont's Used Books
Search or browse descriptions and pictures of a wide range of second hand books, including Children's, Christian, History, Illustrated, Nature and Poetry. Secure online ordering.

Deiltak First Editions
Modern first editions, mostly UK firsts, though we also have smaller lists of biography, non-fiction and US firsts. Our site also includes a magazine for book lovers and collectors, the dagga, contributions to which are also welcome.

Dorset Rare Books and Water Lane Bookshop, Salisbury
Shop a few minutes from Salisbury Cathedral, we buy and sell good quality Antiquarian and Second-hand books on most subjects, good prices paid. PBFA member.

East Riding Books
Located in East Yorkshire, East Riding Books offers a range of second hand, collectible and new books on all aspects of music and a very small collection of scores. A member of the PBFA 

Simon Gough Books
A large general stock and specialising in agriculture; applied arts; art historyand reference; artists; bindings; literary criticism; literature; composers; musical instruments; and rural life.

Greyfriars Books - the Colchester Bookshop
Large bookshop specialising in academic secondhand and out-of-print books on literature, art, philosophy, history, science and local interests.

David A. H. Grayling
Scarce and out of print books on big game hunting, deer & deer stalking, field sports, gamebird & wildfowl shooting, angling & fishing, hunting with hounds, coursing, dogs, natural history, ornithology, mammals, sporting guns & rifles 

Peter J. Hadley
Stock of English Literature, English Architectural History including Interior design and Landscape History, general English History and Private Press titles including new publications.

Han-Shan Tang Books (John Cayley)
The West's foremost bookseller specializing in the Art of East Asia, SouthEast Asia and Central Asia. In our area of expertise we stock antiquarian, new and secondhand books, and other documentation, in any language. We are constantly buying high quality, scholarly libraries, we also have a strong stock of area and cultural studies titles for the region. We work mainly by mail order.

Hay Cinema Bookshop and Francis Edwards
Some 200,000 volumes on all subjects housed in what used to be the town's Cinema. Francis Edwards, antiquarian bookseller since 1855, relocated to Hay-on-Wye, 'The Town of Books' in 1985. Occupying four rooms on the first floor of the world famous Hay Cinema Bookshop, Francis Edwards keeps a stock of approximately 10,000 antiquarian and collectors' books from early printed books to modern first editions.

Hay-on-Wye - see Booklinks

Hereward Books
Specialists in fine and rare books on all aspects of Guns, Big Game Hunting, Shooting, Angling and related subjects and have been trading full time for 25 years. Produce two catalogues a year on specialist stock but also carry a good selection of rare and collectable books on various subjects at our shop at Haddenham, near Ely.

Kemp Booksellers
A varied stock of secondhand and antiquarian books with an emphasis on modern first editions and Yorkshire local history and topography. We issue occasional catalogues on both these specialities, please email us to receive a copy.Under our publishing imprint Mr.Pye (Books) we reprint in facsimile a selection of local history titles relating to our area. The Leading Mervyn Peake specialist.

Kidz Books
Rare and hard to find children's books, specialising in Enid Blyton, Malcolm Saville, Elinor Brent-Dyer, Ladybirds and many more. With just under 3000 books we have a very quick turnover and new stock is added all the time.

Little Wonder Books
Ancient Civilisations, Astrology, Biography, Cults and Secret Societies, Divination and Precognition, Earth Mysteries, Folklore & Legends, Ghosts and Hauntings, Graphology, Mediumship, Spiritualism, Mystism, New Age, Occult & Magic, Palmistry, Psychical Research & Parapsychology, Witchcraft, etc.

Lymelight Books and Prints
Main specialities are Art, Geology, Illustrated, Literature, Natural History, Poetry, Topography and Travel.

Maggs Bros. Ltd
....was established in the nineteenth century and is a leading London dealer in rare and antiquarian books and related items. We specialise in Modern First Editions, English literature; incunabula; illuminated manuscripts; travel; continental literature; natural history; military and autographs.

March House Books
Specialist internet booksellers since 1997 March House Books offers a wide range of children's, illustrated and general books. 

Military Library Research Service Ltd
Sellers/publishers/reprinters of military books and manuals - military history reprints for all military historians, re-enactors, wargamers, modellers and tour guides.

Mr. Mac
A varied range of secondhand and out-of-print books. On-line catalogue available on web site.

Modern Firsts
The online bookstore of Petersham Books, specialising in modern first editions with a large selection of rare and collectable modern and contemporary literature as well as crime and mystery fiction.

Newcastle Bookshop (Valerie Levitt)
Based on the Newcastle Quayside in the North-East of England, stocks a wide range of used, out of print and antiquarian books.

O'Donoghue Books
Stock of over 10,000 second hand and out-of-print books with an emphasis on Philosophy and Social Sciences as well as a wide selection of general titles.

Paralos Ltd.
Antiquarian books, maps and prints. Early printing, classics, plate books and travels. Decorative and natural history prints. Maps and atlases of all regions printed before 1800.

Patterson Liddle
Books on Aviation, Canals and Inland Waterways, and UK Railways.

Paul Orssich
Established on the Mediterranean Island of Menorca in 1980, the business now operates from Fulham a short distance from the commercial centre of London. All aspects of Hispanic Studies found in antiquarian, rare or out of print books. Two catalogues each year; descriptions are in Spanish but often include citations in the language of the text. Lists of available titles can be generated by almost any criteria.

Phenotype Books Ltd, J. E.Mattley
Antiquarian and secondhand books on agriculture, farm livestock, dogs, horses, and allied subjects. Working from private premises in Cumbria, regular catalogues on specialist stock issued or can provide single subject lists on request. Member of PBFA.

Plurabelle Books
English studies, linguistics, book and computing history, rhetoric, gender studies, philosophy, etc. Member ibooknet.

Quaint and Quirky
An eclectic range of books which are mainly secondhand, non-fiction. Also a small number of booklets, magazines, new books, and some quaint and quirky 'Not Books'.

Scorpio Books
Lorna and Patrick Quorn have together over half a century of book selling experience and have been members of PBFA for over twenty-five years, specialising in Military, Aviation, Naval History together with Jazz, Women's studies and Performing arts. They also carry a large general stock.

G. A.Michael Sims (A Book for all Reasons - ABfaR)
Medium general stock of collectable and out-of-print books with emphasis on first half 20th Century popular fiction, Royal Navy (mainlyWW2 and esp. Royal Naval Patrol Service and Coastal Forces), Norfolk and Suffolk Topography and Local History. Member PBFA and ibooknet.

Ken Spelman Rare Books
Art, Design and Ornament: Architecture: Classical and General Works; Architecture: Rural and Cottage, also Flowers and Gardens; Literatureand History; Illustrated Books and Bindings; Science, Technology and Medicine; Colour Science and Technique; Education, Dictionaries and Philosophy; General Antiquarian Stock.

The Sporting Bookshop
Specialises in old and out-of-print football, cricket, boxing and fishing books with a selection of many other sports. We also have in stock football and other sports programmes, magazines, videos and memorabilia

Tarka Books
General secondhand bookseller and supplier of discount computer books. Largest secondhand bookshop in North Devon's regional centre. Established 1988.

Robert Temple
Specialists in English and American literary first editions, including later printings with revisions or additions, with a current stock of about 4,000 both antiquarian and modern. Also a bibliographical archive file, giving bibliographical information and notes on about 18,000 books, on a good many of which there is no other bibliographical information available.

Tilleys Vintage Magazines
For all kinds of printed material, mainly magazines, periodicals, comics, newspapers, annuals and programmes but including books and ephemera, with over one million items stocked - retail premises in Sheffield and Chesterfield.

TLÖN Books
History of the world divided into catalogues by country/period.

John Townsend
Second-hand and antiquarian books, specialist in Genealogy and BritishTopography. Samples of stock, get a catalogue by e-mail, etc.

Underwood House Books (Bruce Holdsworth)
You can browse through our Catalogue of books on art and design and related subjects and Order Books on any subject or request a Book Search for new or out of print books. Underwood House Books is an established bookseller with years of experience, specialising in the area of Art and Design and related subjects.

Village Bookshop
A bookshop serving Upper Teesdale offering a range of new and an ever-changing stock of secondhand books for collectors in many subjects, especially Country Life, Fishing and Shooting, Sporting and Working Dogs and anything to do with Co. Durham (particularly Teesdale and Weardale). Out of print or rare books can be searched for on your behalf.

The Virtual Bookshelf
Medium-sized book shop based in south-east London, having a broad general stock with emphasis on military history, theatre history, all things equine and Shropshire topography and local history.

R. F. & C. Ward
Online stock in catalogues indexed alpabetically and by subject; a stock of over 20,000 titles (all subjects) and have been trading full time since 1984

David White Books
buys and sells old, rare, antiquarian and interesting out-of-print medical books specializing in the history of medicine and pharmacy.

Wigtown - see Booklinks

Nigel Williams
First edition literature, childrens books and P. G. Wodehouse.

Yesteryear Railwayana
Postal dealers specializing exclusively in every kind of printed material both textual and illustrated that might relate to any aspect of railway history worldwide, covering all periods of time and in various languages.

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