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 Bookshops >> North West >> Lancashire <<
Secondhand and Antiquarian Bookshops in
Lancashire
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Book Bargains
31 St Andrews Road South
LYTHAM ST ANNES  Lancashire  FY8 1PZ
tel: 01253 712015
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Open: Tuesday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.30.
    It was closed on the day I was there but looked like a medium-sized second-hand shop. - Bridget the Browser.

The Book & Gift Shop
36 Garswood Street
ASHTON-IN-MARKERFIELD  Lancashire  WN4 9AF
tel: 07990 574235
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Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 4.30 and some Sundays in summer.
General book stock,but particularly local mining history and local history books. Imports from overseas on request.

The Book Stop's Here
Stall D9 Large  Section Preston Market
PRESTON  Lancashire  PR2 8NE
tel: 01772 713744
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Open: Every day except Thursday 7.00 - 4.00.
Massive selection of paperback fiction, true crime & abuse cases. Collectable hardbacks, non fiction especially crime, travel & history. A long established local business serving the bibliophiles of Lancashire for the best part of two decades. Also at Clitheroe's Collectors' market every Sunday & on line sales @ ebay under name BIBUXMARKETMAN.

Books Wholesale
Unit 12 Spen Farm Ind Estate  Ashworth Road  Marton BLACKPOOL  Lancashire  FY4 5LP
tel: 01253-698364
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Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 4.00.
Large range of stock fiction and non-fiction, secondhand and good range of remainders and discounted new books. 1000 Square foot warehouse based book shop, just at the end of the M55 motorway in Blackpool. Worth a visit.

Bookmark
2 Victoria Road West
CLEVELEYS  Lancashire
tel: ?
Open: ?
    A small shop near the seafront, packed with a mixture of hardbacks and paperbacks suitable for holiday reading. Mainly fiction but also popular non-fiction, particularly biographies and esoteric. You can also get your palm read there! (Presumably that service is "while u wait") - Bridget the Browser.

The Bookshop
5-7 Garswood Street  Ashton-in-Makerfield
WIGAN  Lancashire  WN4 9AF
tel: 07719 165105
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Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00.
General secondhand bookshop.

The Border Bookshop
61a Halifax Road
TODMORDON  Lancashire  OL14 5BB
tel: 01706 814721
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Open: Monday & Wednesday - Saturday 10.000 - 5.00 closed for lunch.
Large general stock, children's and sport.
    A sizeable, well-organised shop with a good secondhand stock spread over two floors. Bridget the Browser.

Martin Bott (Bookdealers) Ltd
28A Lee Lane
HORWICH  Lancashire  BL6 4JE
tel: 01204 691489  fax: 01204 698729
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Open: Monday - Saturday 10.30 - 3.00, closed Wednesday.
The largest stock of Railway, Transport and Industrial History books in the North. Also general books. Stock - 25000 volumes. See our website for full details plus online catalogues and instant ordering.

Bowdon Books and Textile Art
33 Lowergate
CLITHEROE  Lancashire BB7 1AD
Tel: 01200 425333
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Open Thursday - Saturday 10 - 4.00.
General, mainly non-fiction stock, northern counties topography and local history.

Carnforth Book Shop
38-42, Market Street
CARNFORTH  Lancashire  LA5 9JX
tel: 01524 734588
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Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.30.
A very large stock covering a broad range of subjects.
    Spread over three floors with the ground floor an ordinary new bookshop, the first and second floors are devoted to second hand books with mainly large rooms on the first floor and smaller rooms on the second. The big selection of stock covers most subjects and it can take quite some time to peruse this large shop. - Jeremy Briggs

Clitheroe Books
29 Moor Lane
CLITHEROE  Lancashire  BB7 1BE
tel: 01200 444242
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Open: Tuesday & Thursday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00
General stock as well as children's, literature and transport.

Great Grandfather's Books
82 Towngate
LEYLAND  Lancashire  PR25 2LR
tel: 01772 422268
Open: Tuesday and Thursday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30.
Over 15,000 secondhand books in most subject areas and prices ranges. 5 mins from M6 Junction 28, follow signs for Civic Centre and the shop on left just before second set of lights.

Halewood & Sons
37 Friargate
PRESTON  Lancashire  PR1 2AT
tel: 01772 252603
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Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.30

Very large stock, specifically African, American and Australian interest.

George Kelsall's Bookshop
22 Church Street
LITTLEBOROUGH  Lancashire  OL15 9AA
tel: 01706 370244
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Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00, Tuesday 1.00 - 5.00
A large general stock including art, history, northern topography, industrial history, transport and literature. Books boughty. PBFA member.

Lyall's Book Shop
15 Rochdale Road
TODMORDON  Lancashire  OL14 5AA
tel: 07971 806624
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Open: Wednesday & Thursday 11.00 - 4.00, Saturday 11.00 - 4.30
General stock and particularly, art, history, military and some antiqurian.
    A mixed stock spread over two floors, welcoming to browsers. - Bridget the Browser.

Moorland Books
1 Smithy Lane  
UPPERMILL  Oldham  Lancashire  OL3 6AH
tel: 01457 871306  map
Open: 7 days 11.00 - 5.00.
Antiquarian, rare and secondhand books bought and sold. Book finding service and gift vouchers. Browsers welcome. Traditional secondhand bookshop established in 1982, and under new ownership since April 2006.

    A well-organised, medium-sized bookshop with an enthusiastic owner serving the local community as well as the tourist market. A quality, mixed stock and well worth a visit if your journey takes you that way. - Bridget the Browser.

Not Just Books
59 Bryn Street
ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD  Lancashire  WN4 9AX
tel: 07891 249 110
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Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 4.00, closed Wednesday. Quality second-hands books from a large range of genres. We sell driftwood mirrors, candles and a small selection of crystals. We also offer a proof-reading service and mail order.

Oxfam Bookshop
54 Penny Street
LANCASTER
  Lancashire  LA1 1XF
tel: 01524 380478  map

Oxfam Bookshop
34 Market Place
PRESTON  Lancashire  PR1 2AR
tel: 01772 881590
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Oxfam Bookshop
5 Baillie Street
ROCHDALE  Lancashire  OL16 1JJ
tel: 01706 355189
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    Close your eyes and you can forget the near Dickensian social conditions of Rochdale. Whether you call it an Oxfam bookshop or not, it is nothing more or less than a traditional second hand bookshop where browsers can spend their lunchtimes away from the noise and tack of this East Lancs regenerating town. Well worth a visit. Its light, spacious, with occasional jazz playing, a small area to read at your leisure. And threatened with closure. Please sign the petition trying to prevent this. - D Cowan 18.03.08

Riley Books
130 Union Road
OSWALDTWISTLE  Lancashire  BB5 3DR

tel: 01254 704 728  e-mail   website  map
Open: Thursday - Saturday 10.30 - 5.30.
Approximately 10,000 books, specialising in first editions, history, biography, science fiction, fantasy, horror, poetry and plays. We also have a large stock of Folio Society books, plus transport, text books, nature and travel. We have an additional unit at Botany Bay, Chorley just off Junction 8 of the M61.

St Catherines Hospice Bookshop
54 Chapel Street
CHORLEY  Lancashire  PR7 1BS
tel: 01772 313063  fax: 01772 695298
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Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00.
Massive collection of donated books on all subjects at fantastic prices. All proceeds to St Catherines Hospice.

St Catherines Hospice Bookshop
73 Wellington Road  Ashton
PRESTON  Lancashire  PR2 1BX
tel: 01772 313063 fax: 01772 695298
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Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00
Massive collection of donated books on all subjects at fantastic prices. All proceeds to St Catherines Hospice.

Towpath Bookshop
27 High Street  Uppermill
OLDHAM  Lancashire  OL3 6HS
tel: 01457 877078
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Open: Wednesday - Saturday 10.30 - 5.00 & Sunday from 11.00.
General secondhand stock.
    One of the smallest secondhand shops I've seen, being in the front room of a small terraced house, with a mixed stock aimed at the passing tourists, but still worth a look. - Bridget the Browser.

Windmill Bookshop
62a Preston Road
LYTHAM ST ANNES  Lancashire  FY8 5AE
tel: 01253 732485
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Open: Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 - 5.00
General secondhand bookshop.
    A large stock, much of it on shelves too high to see, let alone reach, and with books piled up on the floor. There was some quality stock here but you had to be a vey dedicated browser, particularly if you wanted to view the book at the bottom of a metre-high pile of hardbacks. The owner was friendly and knowledgeable but on a rainy day when the boxes outside have to move inside as well, I couldn't see how you would enter the shop at all! - Bridget the Browser.

 
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