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Booksellers selling books about LondonAsh Rare Books 43 Huron Road Upper Tooting London SW17 8RE Tel: 020 8672 2263 Fax: 020 7623 9052 Email: worms@ashrare.com Private premises: appointment necessary. General antiquarian books, first editions, etc., and with a small selection of antiquarian London books. Also London maps and a large stock of London prints. Beaumont Travel Books 31 Museum Street London WC1 1LH Tel/Fax: 020 7637 5862 Email: 100555.561@compuserve.com Shop premises: open 10:30-6:00 Monday-Saturday; 12:00-6:00 Sunday. Travel books, obviously, but always has a selection of London books. Chelsea Rare Books 313 King's Road London SW3 5EP Tel: 020 7351 0950 Fax: 020 7351 2928 Shop premises: open 10:00-6:00 Monday-Saturday. General stock, but always with a reasonable selection of London books, particularly on the Chelsea side of town. Also prints, etc. A. J. Coombes 24 Horsham Road Dorking Surrey RH4 2JA Tel: 01306 880736 Fax: 01306 743641 Private premises: appointment necessary. Specialises in British local history. Issues a London catalogue each year, with books at all price levels. Also Ordnance Survey maps. Toby English 10 St Mary's Street Wallingford Oxon OX10 0EL Tel/Fax: 01491 826389 Shop premises: open 10:00-5:00. General stock. Strong on books on the Thames, and often has more general London books. Exhibits regularly at the London fairs. Issues catalogues on architecture, etc. Robert Frew Ltd. 106 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3NA Tel: 020 7580 2311 Fax: 020 7580 2313 Email: rfrew@cityscape.co.uk Shop premises: open 10:00-6:00 Monday-Friday; 10:00-2:00 Sunday. An attractive general antiquarian stock, and often has some worthwhile London books. Also sells London maps, prints, etc. Nancy Sheiry Glaister -- Fine and Rare Books 18 Huntingdon Street London N1 1BS Tel: 020 7609 1605 Fax: 020 7607 2641 Private premises: by appointment only. Specialises in architecture, town planning, landscape architecture, etc., and often has London books relating to these fields. Occasional catalogues. Nicholas Goodyer 15 Calabria Road Highbury Fields London N5 1JB Tel: 020 7226 5682 Fax: 020 7354 4716 Normally open regular business hours, but an appointment advisable. General antiquarian books, with a small and select stock of antiquarian London books. Also folding maps of London. Island Books 52 Becmead Avenue London SW16 1UQ Tel: 020 8677 0177 Private premises: by appointment only. Specialises in British topography, local history, etc., including a good deal of London material. Occasional catalogues. Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers 46 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3PA. Tel: 020 7631 4220 Fax: 020 7436 6544 Office premises opposite the British Museum: open 9:30-5:30 Monday-Friday, but mainly catalogue booksellers and appointments are preferred. The leading specialists in 19th century literature, Dickens and Dickensiana, but can also be relied on to have London books, particularly in the fields of social and economic history, housing conditions, the London underworld, etc., as well as London literature. Also stocks antique folding maps of London. Peter Marcan PO Box 3138 London SE1 4RA Tel: 020 7357 0368 Private premises (off Bermondsey Street): by appointment only. Visual arts, urban history and culture (especially London), etc. Catalogues. Marlborough Rare Books 144-146 New Bond Street London W1Y 9FD Tel: 020 7493 6993 Fax: 020 7499 2479 Office premises: open 9:30-5:30 Monday-Friday. Owned and energetically run by Jonathan Gestetner, himself one of the great collectors of London books. No-one is more familiar with the material. Issues London catalogues -- mainly of rarer and earlier books, but also more modestly priced 19th century items. Roy Pitches 7 Keswick Close Dunstable LU6 3AW Tel: 01582 662815 Private premises. Specialises in church history, school and college histories, etc., but also stocks a selection of London books that he exhibits at the regular London fairs. Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books 32 St George Street London W1R 0EA Tel: 020 7493 0876 Fax: 020 7229 7860 Shop premises: open 9:30-6:30 Monday-Friday; 11:00-5:00 Saturday. A large general antiquarian bookshop that always has some worthwhile London books. Just behind Sotheby's. Ought to be visited to see the smartest antiquarian bookshop that has appeared in London for a good many years. Also stocks maps, prints, etc. Henry Sotheran Ltd. 2-5 Sackville Street London W1X 2DP Tel: 020 7439 6151 Fax: 020 7434 2019 Shop premises: open 9:30-6:00 Monday-Friday; 10:00-4:00 Saturday. General antiquarian books. Has a very strong architecture department that always includes some unusual London material. Ray Sparkes (Books) The Grange Woodhouses Yoxall Staffs DE13 8NP Tel/Fax: 01543 472274 Private premises: appointment necessary. Specialises in British directories, poll-books, etc. and often has London material of this type. Issues catalogues and exhibits regularly at the London fairs. The Tyger Press Ltd. 36 Goldington Street London NW1 1UE Answerphone and Fax: 020 7916 3827 Private premises. Specialises in British topography. Issues catalogues, often containing a good deal of London material. Exhibits regularly at the London fairs. P H Whetman 42 Harberton Road London N19 3JR Tel/fax: 020 7263 1010 Private premises. View by appointment. Bookseller who issues one catalogue of books on London per year. Charles Woodruff at A. F. Roe 29 Museum Street London WC1A 1LH Tel: 020 7636 4787 Fax: 020 7636 6110 Shop premises: open 10:30-6:00 Monday-Saturday. Charles Woodruff specialises in London books and displays a selection of them at the Roe shop, alongside their stock of modern art and illustrated books, French literature, etc. London Tel: 020 Fax: 020 |