Bookbarrow (Frank Edwards)
City Centre Market  Market Square
CAMBRIDGE  Cambridgeshire  CB2 3QJ
tel: 01223 424 429  map
Open: Thursday 9.00 - 4.00.
Large general stock on market stall covering most subjects. Specialising in East Anglian Topography, Esoteric, Art, Natural History,Modern First Editions available at Bookfairs. Attending P.B.F.A. fairs in East Anglia & also the monthly bookfair in Long Melford, Suffolk.

Books & Collectables Ltd
Unit 7 & 8, Railway Arches  Coldhams Road
CAMBRIDGE  Cambridgeshire  CB1 3EW
tel: 01223 412845  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00 Sunday 10.00 - 4.00.
Large general stock of about 40,000 books and 200,000 comics and magazines.
    This has to be seen to be believed. Two huge railway arches dripping with damp and plates and buckets to catch the water. The books are stacked any which way which makes shelf scanning difficult. There is some quality stuff here if you can suppress disgust at books being stored in such conditions, but it is very pricey. - Jon Morgan 05.02.08.

Books for Amnesty
46 Mill Road
CAMBRIDGE  Cambridgeshire  CB1 2AS
tel: 01223 362496  e-mail  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Charity bookshop.
    This shop is a pleasure to be in. (Only takes cash /cheques.) Well ordered and arranged quality stock if slightly pricey. I have even pressured an arch conservative friend of mine to enter its doors and contribute albeit unwillingly to the cause by buying its books. Incidentally about a hundred yards down the road towards the city centre is an excellent cafe, scrubbed pine tables which also sells second hand books and the shelf scanning is rewarding. - Jon Morgan 05.02.08.

Cambridge Book and Print Gallery
49 Newnham Road
CAMBRIDGE  Cambridgeshire  CB3 9EY
tel: 01223 694264 fax: 01223 694264  e-mail  website  map
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30.
Rare books, signed copies a speciality, original prints and drawings and paintings by modern British and international masters. New location on Newnham Road.

G David Bookseller
16, St. Edwards Passage
CAMBRIDGE  Cambridgeshire CB2 3PJ
tel: 01223 354619  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.00.
Secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly literature, illustrated, children's, natural history and fine bindings.
    This shop has for long been my delight. Run by several cheery, helpful fellows with a superb range of remainders covering all possible subjects. And an antiquarian section that almost always meets my needs.A bulging carrier bag departure guaranteed! - Mike Cooper 11.12.08.

Galloway and Porter Ltd
30 Sidney Street
CAMBRIDGE  Cambridgeshire  CB2 3HS
tel: 01223 367876  fax: 1223 360705  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday -Friday 8.45 - 5.00, Saturday 9.00 - 5.30
Bargain books and some secondhand.
    Always worth a visit for its extensive stock of very cheap remainders. Even better is the once a month warehouse sale on Cherry Hinton Road. Books (usually ones I have bought full price just weeks before) are rarely more than £2.00. - Jon Morgan 05.02.08.
    They have recently opened an antiquarian book department on the second floor, though stock levels have yet to build up. - Henry Middleton 20.02.09.
    Sadly their prices seem to have gone up a notch recently, but still reasonable. George Marshall 01.04.09.

The Haunted Bookshop
9 St Edwards Passage
CAMBRIDGE  Cambridgeshire  CB2 3PJ
tel: 01223 312913  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Antiquarian and secondhand, with occasional new. Children's titles, mainly twentieth century. A few local history books, bindings, poetry and literature. We buy selectively in all the above areas and mail to anywhere in the world.

Hereward Books
17 High Street  Haddenham
ELY  Cambridgeshire  CB6 3XA
tel: 01353 740821  map
Open: Monday - Saturday but best to ring first.
General secondhand books, country sports and natural history.

Oxfam Bookshop
28 Sidney Street
CAMBRIDGE  Cambridgeshire  CB2 3HW
tel: 01223 313373  e-mail  map
Open: ?
    Always worth a visit as is the normal Oxfam shop by Magdalen Bridge. Good general stock of books at around the £2-3 mark. - Jon Morgan 05.02.08.

Peakirk Books
Railway Cottage St. Pegas Road
PEAKIRK  Cambridgeshire  PE6 7NF
tel: 01733 253182  e-mail  website  map
Open: Thursday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00 Sunday 12.00 - 4.00.
Large general stock. Specialists in 20th century children's books, John Clare, local topography and the Fens

Plurabelle Books
The Michael Young Centre  Purbeck Road
CAMBRIDGE  Cambridgeshire  CB2 8HN
tel: 01223 415671  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Friday 9.00 - 4.00
We have 45,000 second-hand books, some venerable and showing it, others untouched. We specialise in academic books, but there's something for everybody, from the practical to the farcical, bestsellers to rare first editions. We buy and sell books; browsers are welcome, online or otherwise, though it's best to phone before visiting us.
    A real gem of a place once I could find a way in. Its on line catalogue is also worth a look but the shelves are creaking with bought in collections and single items and I had scooped up a dozen within the first 20 minutes. Unfailingly helpful and warm - unlike the warehouse at this time of year! - Jon Morgan 05.02.08.

RSPCA Bookshop
188 Mill Road
CAMBRIDGE  Cambridgeshire  CB1 3LP
tel: 01223 212 644  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00
Secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly children's. Large stocks of quality secondhand paperbacks. We also sell online and can mail books anywhere in the country. All profits go to support the Cambridge and District branch of the RSPCA.