Any Amount Of Books

Our second-hand bookshop is in the centre of London. The shop is 50 yards from Leicester Square station, on the edge of Covent Garden and the Chinese quarter. We are close to many theatres and within spitting distance of Soho & Piccadilly--well worth a detour when in the mighty city.

We are open 10:30-9:30, 7 days a week. We have books as cheap as £1 and also rare books at many thousands of pounds. We buy books and will travel anywhere in the world if sufficiently motivated. Do let us know if you have a large collection of old books for sale. Lastly, nothing can replace actually going to a bookshop; shut down that machine now and come down to the shop if you are within 30 miles!

The catalogue is updated constantly as books come into our shops from mansions, country houses, schlosses, villas, chateaus and remote crofts.

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LEATHER BOUND BOOKS, BINDINGS, BOOKS BY THE YARD, BOOKS FOR DECORATION.

At our shops we always maintain a quantity of leather bindings suitable for decoration. The prices tend to be on average about £10-£15 ($15--$24) per book. Fine bindings and sets of fine bindings are often available also, however the price can be up to £60 ($90) per book. The books available at £10-£15 are in good condition and have leather spines and have proved ideal for interior decoration. We have supplied these books throughout the world to clubs, hotels and private residences.

We only sell these books at the shop, we have found that people need to choose the books that suit their purposes and this is impossible by e-mail etc., So please come by the shop-we are here all week 11 hours a day. We can also supply hard back (i.e. not leather) books at considerably less, especially if bought in quantity. These books are sometimes referred to as clothbound books to distinguish them from paperbacks (which can also be supplied). 'Books do furnish a room.'

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Notes and Brags

Books have been pouring in from mansions, studio flats, tenements, garages, suburban villas, long term storage units, warehouses and windswept bungalows. A notable buy was 15000 books from the amazing library of Jeremy Beadle MBE (1948 -2008) British entertainer, television star, hoaxer, quizmaster, book collector and philanthropist. Great stuff with books on almost all subjects and, oddly, less than 0.1% of it fiction. A third were books on crime in all its varieties, including forgery, confidence trickery and 'orrible murders.

Books from the 'Beadlian' library also included disasters, revenge, illusion, performing animals, show biz, rock music, card tricks, the Wild West, London, sport and a huge amount of biographies, some pretty unusual. These will be emerging over the next few months along with our almost infinite collection of art and photography books (recently enriched by an American photo collection still on the high seas). A goodly lot of literature came in from the estate of the novelist Francis King, with many signed presentations to him from the major and the minor... All priced with a soft pencil and the new austerity in the forefront of our minds.

We were approached to provide a load of leather books for Scorsese's fine movie Hugo and as it was being shot in France we were able to hook with a Parisian bouquiniste colleague possessed of a shed full of large dusty tomes just right for the bookshop in the movie - thus securing a fee big enough to get over to the City of Light for the Saint Sulpice open air book fair. La vie en rose.

Celebs buying books included the doctor from Downton Abbey, Lenny Henry (playing Othello down the road) brain box Victoria Coren, Andrew Marr, Ben Okri, Romola Gary and The Edge (or a bloke pretending to be him... ) Meanwhile a crew from a Chinese TV station came by shooting a wedding gift programme (possibly) where all the staff interviewed will be dubbed into Chinese. A nice bunch who caused a minimum of fuss (unlike some film crews!)

We await the Olympics with unalloyed glee (except the three weeks of traffic inferno...) Long live the bricks and mortar bookshop and praise the web for letting us sell to readers of all nations. Was it not Churchill who said: "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind?

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Terms of Service

All the books listed are first editions in the country of publication, 8vo in size, in good condition and in original bindings unless otherwise stated. Place of publication is noted, unless London. Unobjectionable names, very short inscriptions and bookplates not usually noted.

Any item found not to be as described may be returned within 3 weeks of receipt. New overseas customers are asked to pay in advance on a pro-forma invoice. Postage is extra. Books are reserved for 7 days.

Postage:

Postal Costs from London--books under 1 Kilo (ie normal size books) $10.00 (£6.50) to USA and Rest of World.

£2.50 to UK and £4.50 ($7.00) to Europe.

Over 1 Kilo (2.2 pounds) £13 ($20) to USA and £6.50 to Europe.

Over 1.6 Kilos £18 ($27) to USA and £10 to Europe. (£5 U.K.)

Shipment takes about 12 days to USA. We accept Visa, MC, American Express, Paypal and UK & US checks.

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