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Home  Featured Shops ABA Bookshops - The Thames Valley
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ABA Bookshops - The Thames Valley
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The Secret People First Edition of John Wyndham’s first novel in scarce dustwrapper. |
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Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta, "Book Buying" (1884) |
Bennett & Kerr Books (ABA, PBFA) was established in 1982 by Edmund Bennett and Andrew Kerr. We specialise in antiquarian, rare and scholarly books on the Middle Ages and Renascence, and issue regular catalogues. We have over seven thousand volumes in stock in our rather unprepossessing warehouse, at the end of a farmyard, beyond the church, in the beautiful village of Steventon, south of Oxford. Visitors are welcome here - we are usually open 9.30-5.30 Mon-Fri and for a shorter time on Saturday, but we recommend telephoning first (01235 820604) to avoid disappointment.
Blackwell's began trading on the 1st of January 1879 as a dealer in rare and secondhand books. Benjamin Henry Blackwell traded from a single tiny room which was all but filled by one chair and one customer. How times have changed: that room soon expanded into the main Blackwell's shop at 48-51 Broad Street, which now features inside it the largest room dedicated to bookselling in Europe. B. H. Blackwell issued Catalogue No. 1 upon opening the shop and quickly found buyers among the great and the good of Oxford. Among its many entries were fine books such as Loggan's Oxoniana illustrata - one of the most expensive of the catalogue's books at £5 - a first edition of Hobbes' Leviathan for 18s. and Piranesi's Le antichita romane (1651) in four volumes for £5/10/-.
Anthony C. Hall runs a general bookshop with a specialist mail-order business in Russian & East European Studies; The Balkans; the Middle East; Central Asia; Africa & Asia; Books In Russian; Business History and Industrial History.
Over the past decade Jonkers Rare Books has formed an international reputation for handling exceptional copies of fine and rare books predominantly in the fields of Modern First Editions; Fine Illustrated Books; Classic Children's Fiction and Nineteenth Century Literature.
Sanders of Oxford is one of the largest print sellers in Britain, and features a varied and wide-ranging stock of more than 30,000 items. Our shop has long been a landmark on the High Street, continuing a tradition established in the middle of the nineteenth century of trading in antique prints, antique maps and drawings. We are located opposite Brasenose College in a listed 16th Century building whose first recorded use of this site was as a tavern called the Salutation Inn.
Way's Bookshop in Henley-on-Thames is a traditional secondhand and antiquarian bookshop, buying or selling books on most subjects - at all levels of value. There is a general selected second-hand & antiquarian stock, with rowing and the River Thames a speciality. Parking at rear.
