Ken Spelman Rare Books

Ken Spelman Rare Books was established in 1948. In addition to our rare and antiquarian books, we also have a rapidly changing stock of over 40,000 scholarly and interesting books on all subjects. Private purchases and review copies of the latest titles, are added daily.

Books on the Fine Arts, Architecture, Garden Design, Literature, History, Science & Technology, Philosophy & very many other areas.

There is on-street parking right outside our door - a rarity for York!

Ken Spelman Rare Books
70 Micklegate
York YO1 6LF

Tel: (0)1904 624414
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Open: 9.00am - 5.30pm, Monday - Saturday.

Featured books

kepler

Kepler’s Most Influential Work

£75,000 first edition, a fine copy, of the work which ‘ranks next to Ptolemy’s Almagest and Copernicus’ De revolutionibus... [It] is the first systematic complete presentation of astronomy to introduce the idea of modern celestial mechanics founded by Kepler’ (Caspar, Kepler, p 297)

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Next fair

nationalhall

Olympia 2012. The ABA's London International Antiquarian Book Fair will be held in the superb National Hall at Olympia. The National Hall provides the Fair with much more space – both for circulation and more stands. ¶ Read more...

Fairs and events

20/05/2012 - 20/05/2012 | 11.00
PBFA London Summer International (1)
24/05/2012 - 26/05/2012
ABA London Antiquarian Bookfair, Olympia 2012

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)