Antiquarian and secondhand bookshops
10 April 2008
The bookshops listed in this factsheet are medical antiquarian booksdealers and not general bookshops. In general, twentieth century books are difficult to sell unless they illustrate some important scientific discovery.
Another factsheet donating books to developing countries lists agencies which accept donations for redistribution to developing countries.
Addresses
The Bookshop
31-35 Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3HZ
tel: 020 7430 1394
John Boyle and Co
40 Drayton Gardens
London
SW10 9SA
tel: 020 7373 8247
tax: 020 7370 7460
John Price
8 Cloudesley Square
London
N1 0HT
tel: 020 7837 8008
fax: 020 7278 4733
William Patrick Watson Antiquarian Books
21 Hollycroft Avenue
London
NW3 7QH
tel: 020 7431 0489
fax: 020 7431 0495
email: watsonbooks@dial.pipex.com
Graham Weiner
78 Rosebery Road
London
N10 2LA
tel: 020 8883 8424
fax: 020 8444 6505
Web resources
Advanced Book Exchange
Sophisticated search engine which allows the user to search for a specific book or to browse books in a subject. It collates the catalogues of many different booksellers:
Bibliofind
Database of ten million used and rare books, periodicals and ephemera offered for sale by thousands of booksellers around the world. It now works in conjuction with the Amazon.com rare books service.
HERO list of bookshops and publishers
The Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK site lists booksellers, publishers, electronic texts, audiobooks, book fairs and awards, and related resources:
Los Alamos National Laboratory library
Good listing of those web-based booksellers that specialise in out-of-print, used and hard to find books:
Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences
A good directory of online resources and booksellers, however with a North American bias: