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 Bookshops >> East Anglia >> Suffolk <<
Secondhand and Antiquarian Bookshops in
Suffolk
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Roy Arnold
77 High Street
NEEDHAM MARKET  Ipswich  Suffolk  IP6 8AN
tel: 01449 720110  map

Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30
Secondhand and some new books on early trades, tools, mills, applied arts and antiques.
    Claims to be the only place that stocks all the current Shire Albums in print ...but not the other Shire series. Says he has done so since they first came out! Other than that his shop is only of interest to those wanting his specialists area of woodworking, tools etc. - Kim Andrews.

Bardsley's Books
22 Upper Olland Street
BUNGAY  Suffolk  NR35 1BH
tel: 01986 892077
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Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30,
closed Wednesday pm.
A large stock including the arts, architecture, fine printing and Folio Society.

V.S Bell
19 Market Hill
FRAMLINGHAM  Woodbridge  Suffolk  IP13 9BB
tel: 01728 723046  map

Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00, closed Wednesday pm and for lunch.
General secondhand books as well as crime and detective fiction.

Besleys Books
4 Blyburgate Town
BECCLES  Suffolk  NR34 9TA
tel: 01502 715762  fax: 01502 675649
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Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00.
Traditional secondhand and antiquarian bookshop on two floors and in 4 rooms. Annual catalogues on gardening and natural history.
    An excellent shop with a wide range of nice stock, including antiquarian. Easy to find in the centre of town. - Richard.

Chapel Books
The Street  Westleton
SAXMUNDHAM  Suffolk  IP17 3AA
tel: 01728 648616
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Open: 7 days 12.00 - 5.00.
Large general stock.

Churchgate Books
47 Churchgate Street
BURY ST EDMUNDS
  Suffolk  IP33 1RG
tel: 01284 704604
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Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00.
Selling and buying quality out-of-print, secondhand and antiquarian books. Also offering booksearch and bookbinding service.

    Small but good general stock in very good condition. Bookbinders at rear. Very customer (and child) friendl, actually has time to talk. Runs own Book fairs in Long Melford (www.longmelfordbookfairs.co.uk) which contrary to Driff's assertions actually look more than the exclusionary places they can sometimes seem for those, like me, not in the trade. - Jon Morgan 16.02.08.

Claude Cox Books
3 Silent Street
IPSWICH  Suffolk  IP1 1TF
tel: 01473 254776
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Open: Wednesday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.

General books and Private presses, antiquarian, natural history and local topography.
    Feels rather intimidating to the casual visitor, I remember from my first visit. Maybe it's the headmaster-style desk...! Actually staff are friendly enough. Stock reasonable quality and quantity, books are clean, prices not excessive. In the centre of town and walkable from any town centre car park (e.g. Charles St). Doesn't stock rubbish. - Roger Pearse 27.06.08

James Hayward
20 Thoroughfare
HALESWORTH  Suffolk  IP19 8AH
tel: 01986 874447
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Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00, closed Thursday and for lunch.
Something for everybody, from paperbacks to antiquarian books.

The Idler
37 High Street
HADLEIGH  Ipswich  Suffolk  IP7 5AF
tel: 01473 827752
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Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00.
General stock and the fine, applied and performing arts, natural history local books and poetry.

Oxfam Books & Music
77 St Johns Sreet
BURY ST EDMUNDS  Suffolk  IP33 1SQ
tel: 01284 706613

Parade Book Shop
10 North Street Parade
SUDBURY  Suffolk  CO10 1GL
tel: 01787 881626
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Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.30.
A medium size general stock of books mainly published in the last 40 years, catering for the reader rather than the collector.

Poor Richard's Books
17 Orwell Road
FELIXSTOWE  Suffolk  IP11 7EP
tel: 01394 283138
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Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00, Sundays by appointment.
50000 + books covering most subjects.
    Some good stuff at the front of the shop. Downstairs smells a bit of damp and seems mainly full of what seems to me like junk books; e.g. large selection of ex-school text books for Latin from a local school! Books grimy in some cases. Easily walkable from town centre car park, but in a side-street. - Roger Pearse 27.06.08

Reed Books
115 High Street
ALDEBURGH  Suffolk  IP15 5AR
tel: 01728 453450
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Open: 7 days 10.00 - 5.00, except Wednesday closes at 2.00, & Sunday closes at 4.00.
General secondhand stock, but particularly music, poetry and sailing.
    A small shop with general stock, right in the heart of Aldeburgh. - Richard.

Sax Books
4a High Street
SAXMUNDHAM  Suffolk  IP17 1DD
tel: 01728 605775
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Open: Wednesday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00.

Stock of about 10,000 books covering most subjects.

David Shacklock Books
27 High Street  
DEBENHAM  Suffolk  IP14 6QN
tel: 01728 861286
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Open: Tuesday 10.00 - 1.00 & 2.00 - 5.00, Friday 2.00 - 8.00, Saturday 10.00 - 4.00.
10 -12,000 general stock, antiquarian, hardback, paperback, ephemera; specialising in GA Henty and Sabine Baring-Gould. We exhibit at bookfairs in Cambridge and Clare.

Southwold Books
9 Pinkneys Lane
SOUTHWOLD  Suffolk  IP18 6EW
tel: 01502 722224
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Open: Monday - Sunday 11.00 - 5.00 (often longer in summer), closed Thursday.
General stock of around 6,000 secondhand fiction & non-fiction titles, with poetry and literary criticism predominating. Popular children's books often in stock, including Ladybirds & Puffins. Also signed copies, many biographies, and some antiquarian titles. Hidden between the market place and the sea. Welcoming features include comfortable seating and resident cat.
    Four rooms: a good variety of stock with a little of everything. - Richard.

Treasure Chest Books
61 Cobbold Road,
FELIXSTOWE  Suffolk  IP11 7BH
tel: 01394 270717
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Open Monday - Saturaday 9.30 - 5.30
A very large stock of some 45,000 books on most subjects, and particularly the arts, cinema, cookery, local history, photography and topography.
    Huge stock all on one level, well organised and labelled, clean and fairly (but not cheaply) priced. Wide range of subjects. WAD. Located slap bang in the centre of town facing the triangular town square, and just across the road from a car park. - Roger Pearse 27.06.08

 
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