We have grouped London's bookshops by postal district.

Chris Beetles Ltd
8-10 Ryder Street
LONDON  SW1Y 6QB
tel: 020 7839 7551  map
Gallery with small stock of out-of-print art reference books.

Bookthrift
22 Thurloe Street  South Kensington
LONDON  SW7 2LT
tel: 020 7589 2916  fax: 020 7589 0522  map
Open: 7 days 10.00 - 8.00.
Mostly good quality art and history remainders. Next to South Kensington tube station.

British Heart Foundation Books & Music Shop
94 Streatham High Road
LONDON  SW16 1BS
tel: 020 8664 7490  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30, Sunday 11.00 - 4.00.
    A very well-organised medium-sized shop with excellent fixtures and fittings, carefully categorised stock, very reasonable prices and a nice friendly atmosphere. It also sells videos, CD's, LP's etc. Highly recommended! - Steve Archer.

Classic Bindings Limited
61 Cambridge Street
LONDON  SW1V 4PS
tel: 0207 834 5554 fax: 0207 630 6632  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 5.00.
Complete sets and individual volumes of rare books and antique books featuring classic bindings published from the 16th to 19th century.

Chelsea Gallery & Il Libro
The Plaza 535 King's Road  Chelsea
LONDON  SW10 0SZ
tel: 020 7823 3248  map

Classic Bindings
61 Cambridge Street
LONDON  SW1V 4PS
tel: 020 7735 1872  map

Classic Library
1st floor 533 Kings Road
LONDON  SW10 0TZ
tel: 020 7376 7653  map
General secondhand books.

Copperfield's
37 Hartfield Road  Wimbledon
LONDON  SW19 3SG
tel: 020 8542 0113  map
Open: 7 days. Monday - Wednesday 10.00 - 7.00 Thursday & Friday 10.00- 8.00 Saturday 11.00 - 6.00, Sunday 11.00 - 6.00.
A general stock of about 30,000 books, strong on philosophy, poetry and military history.
'Medium sized shop, nice general stock - a bit higgledy-piggledy but none the worse for that'....'Bargains Known' and very 'etgow'. - Steve Archer. (etgow. Drifism - easy to get on with.)
    Although there was nothing I collected in stock, this bookshop could take you a very long time to examine. Excellent tennis titles (obviously) and very good on transport. Much else. Worthy of a visit. - Chris Harte 27.06.09.

The Earlsfield Bookshop
513 Garratt Lane  Wandsworth
LONDON SW18 4SW
tel: 020 8946 3744  map
Open: Monday - Thursday 4.00 - 6.00  Friday - Saturday 11.00 - 5.00.
Small general stock.

Folios Ltd
193-195 Brompton Road
London SW3 1LZ
tel: 020 7581 2706  map
Book about the Arab world, the Middle East and Islam.

Robert Frew Ltd
8 Thurloe Place
LONDON  SW7 2RX
tel: 0207 590 6650  fax: 0207 590 6651  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 6.00  Saturday 11.00 - 5.00.
We deal in most areas of antiquarian books with an emphasis on travel, colour plate, illustrated books, atlases, fine literary sets and bindings.

Robin Halwas
9 Cleveland Row  St James
LONDON  SW1A 1DH
tel: 020 7930 2542  map

Peter Harrington
100 Fulham Road
LONDON  SW3 6HS
tel: 020 7591 0220  fax: 020 7225 7054  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00.
First editions and bound sets, voyages, travel, atlases, maps, colour plate and natural history, Illustrated first editions of children's books, fine bindings and fore-edge paintings.

Thomas Heneage Artbooks
42 Duke Street
LONDON  SW1Y 6DJ
Tel: 020 7930 9223  fax: 020 7839 9223  e-mail  website  map
Art reference books, catalogue raisonnés, monographs and exhibition catalogues. It is our policy to stock the most authoritative book on any subject and in any language, irrespective of its being new or second hand.

Hurlingham Books
91 Fulham High Street
LONDON  SW6 3JS
tel: 020 7736 4363  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Friday 9.00 - 6.00.
First editions, rare books, antiquarian books, atlases, maps, children's books and more.
    Although mainly paperbacks and hardback novels there were shelves behind the manager which cotained some top quality local material. If that is your forte then put your nose around the door. - Chris Harte 27.06.09.

My Back Pages
8 Balham Station Road
LONDON South West SW12 9SG
tel: 020 8675 9346  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 7.00, Sunday 11.00 - 6.00.
Large general secondhand stock, collectable, and new books.
    Just pop in if you are passing. Large stock but nothing for a collector. More in the way of a mish-mash of titles sorted into various categories. - Chris Harte 27.06.09.

Oxfam Bookshop
46 Gloucester Road
LONDON  SW7 4QT
tel: 020 7 591 0469
    Much of a muchness - Roger Allen.

Oxfam Bookshop
34 Strutton Ground
LONDON  SW1P 2HR
tel: 020 7233 3908  map

Russell Rare Books
239a, Fulham Road  Chelsea
LONDON  SW3 6HY
tel: 020 7351 5119  e-mail   website  map
Antiquarian, illustrated & bound sets.

St. James's Art Books
15 Piccadilly Parade
LONDON  SW1Y  map
tel: 020 7351 5119
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 6.00.
Books on all aspects of art.

Sims Reed
43a Duke Street
LONDON  SW1Y 6DD
tel: 020 7493 566  fax: 020 7493 5660  e-mail   website  map
Open: Monday - Friday 10.30 - 6.00
Art Reference and Fine Illustrated Books.

Slightly Foxed on Gloucester Road
(Formally the Gloucester Road Bookshop)
123 Gloucester Road
LONDON  SW7 4TE
tel: 020 7370 3503  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Wednesday & Saturday 10.00 - 7.00, Thursday & Friday 10.00 - 9.00,  Sunday 11.00 - 5.00.
The shop stocks an eclectic but carefully chosen range of old books, a selection of new books and classic reprints from interesting small publishers, and a range of unusual artists’ cards. It also provides a showcase for Slightly Foxed and for its successful limited-edition pocket hardback series Slightly Foxed Editions.