Allhalland Books
7 Allhalland Street
BIDEFORD Devon EX39 2JD
tel: 01237 479301  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 4.30 (4.00 on Wednesday)
    A small general stock with some interesting titles. However, these either seemed to be rather optimistically priced, or not priced at all. When I inquired about the latter, I was told, "They are being researched". - TBG 31.07.08.

Barnstaple Flea Market
The Pannier Market
Butchers Row
BARNSTAPLE  Devon  EX31 1SY
tel: Telephone: 01271 379084  map
Open: Wednesdays only.
A handful of booksellers and other stalls with books.
    Three booksellers in the Pannier Market deserve a special mention. Sennash Books specialise in Henry Williamson, Exmoor and aviation, but also have general books on their stall. John Wilkinson, who deals in collectable children's books and toys, and Golden Books who had some high end West Country topography, as well as more general stock. - TBG 31.07.08.

Book Aid
Rebecca Springs
NADDERWATER  Devon  EX4 2JH
tel: 01392 213002  map
Open: Wednesday and Thursday 10.00 - 6.00 other times by appointment.
Charity selling secondhand and some out-of-print and collectable books.

Book-Cycle
7 West Street
EXETER  Devon  EX1 1BB
tel: 01392 420021  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 11.00 - 5.00.
Book-Cycle is a 'not-for-profit social organisation' based in Exeter, England. We collect unwanted books from Devon and Somerset and house them in Britain's only "free bookshop." Here you are invited to choose up to three books per person per day and pay whatever you wish!

The Book Cupboard
18 The Parade  The Barbican
PLYMOUTH  Devon  PL1 2JW
tel: 01752 226311  fax: 0870 1698629  map
Open: 7 days 10.30 - 4.00
A large stock of general secondhand books covering most subjects. - TBG.

Chandos Books
London House  Market Place
COLYTON  Devon  EX24 6JS
tel: 01297 553344  map
Open: Tuesday - Friday 10.00 - 4.00, Satyrday 10.00 - 1.00.
Secondhand and antiquarian bookshop specialising in travel and transport. In-house bookbinding and repairs. Easy on-street parking in front of the shop.

Compass Books
24 Lower Street  
DARTMOUTH  Devon  TQ6 9AN
tel: 01803 835915  fax: 01803 835066  e-mail  map
    A fairly small stock of gereral secondhand books, with a few more unusual titles. Unpredictable opening times. - TBG.
    It is small and the prices are good. They have a good espionage section, although I notice that the stock doesn't turn over too much, and military too. - Andy Overton.

Collards Bookshop
4 Castle Street  
TOTNES  Devon  TQ9 5NU
tel: 01548 550246  map
Open: Friday & Saturday 10.30 - 5.00.
    A small general bookshop which usually repays a visit. - TBG.

Cornerstone Books
Antiques Centre  27 New Street  The Barbican
PLYMOUTH  Devon  PL1 2NB
tel: 01752 661165  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00
    A mountainous stock of mostly hardback books covering almost every subject. Don't forget to take your crampons. - TBG.

The Dartmoor Bookshop
2 Kingsbridge Lane  
ASHBURTON  Devon  TQ13 7DX
tel: 01364 653356  e-mail  website  map
Open: Wednesday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.30
We are a large shop, with around 30,000 books, based in Ashburton on the eastern edge of the Dartmoor country park in Devon. We have been established for over 25 years, and have built up a reputation based on cheap prices and lots of turnover.
    Paul and Barbara Heatley have retired after 22 years, and the shop will now be run by Andy Collins and Brenda Greysmith, who had Pedlar's Pack in Totnes. - TBG 28.09.06.

Dartmoor Book Gallery
3A The Square
MORETONHAMPSTEAD  Devon  TQ13 8NF
tel: 01647 440649  e-mail  website  map
Open: Tuesday - Saturday. 10.00 - 5.00 (Winter 10.00 - 4.30).
An antiquarian bookshop with a difference, offering a small quality stock of antiquarian and collectable books on varied subjects including West Country, natural history, art, literature, maritime, travel and early printed books. Complimented with a substantial selection of antique Devon maps, original artwork and paintings.

Dawlish Books
White Court  Beach Street  
DAWLISH  Devon  EX7 9NL
tel: 01626 866882 / 779500  e-mail  map
Open: (April - November) Monday - Saturday 10.30 - 4.30 closed Wednesday. Out of season, please ring first.
10,000+ books. Wide and varied selection, especially children's, collectables and the occult. Very reasonably priced. Trade welcome.
    A tiny shop crammed with books, and one which rewards diligent browsing. - TBG.
    Unexpectedly high quality stock with an excellent section on magazines. - Chris Harte 14.04.09.

Discovery
8a Grenville Street  
BIDEFORD  Devon  
tel: 01237 473577
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 4.00
Small stock of general secondhand books.
    Primarily a record shop, it continues to have some better books - although the stock in the cellar is no longer publicly accessible, due to the state of the stairs. TBG 31.07.08.

The End Bookshop
54 Queen Street
SEATON  Devon  EX12 2RB
tel: 01297 20808  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 -4.00
Secondhand hardback and paperback books covering most subjects.

Exeter Antiques Centre on the Quay
EXETER  Devon  EX2 4AN
tel: 01392 493501  map
Open: 7 days 10.00 - 5.00
    Several booksellers with general secondhand stock covering a wide range of subjects. - TBG.

Exeter Oxfam Bookshop
97 South Street
EXETER  Devon  EX1 1EN
tel: 01392 253796  e-mail  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.00
Exeter Oxfam Books has a general stock of some 3500 books, including a selction of collectables. We will shortly be selling the more valuable books on ABE. The shop is next to the general Oxfam shop in South Street.

Exeter Rare Books
12a Guildhall Shopping Centre  
EXETER  Devon  EX4 3HG
tel: 01392 436021  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.30 - 5.00  closed for lunch.
Wide ranging stock of secondhand and antiquarian books. ABA and PBFA member.
    Small and a hell of a job to find in its incongruous semi-deserted shopping centre. It does have some gems though but at a price. On balance worth a visit, but don't expect a bargain. - Andy Overton.

Lee Furneaux
6 Lopes Road  Dousland  
YELVERTON  Devon  PL20 6NX
tel: 01822 853243  e-mail  website  map
Bookstall with a small but interesting selection of stock in Tavistock Pannier Market, Devon, every Tuesday + the first and last Saturday of each month, and the third Saturday of the month (March – December). Open: 7.00 - 3.00

Harlequin
41 High Street
TOTNES  Devon  TQ9 5DR
tel: 01803 865794  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30
    A long estabished shop specialising in the best of pubishers remainders, but with a recently expanded secondhand section. - TBG.
    The stock is tiny and dreary - Stephen 16.11.09

Heartland Old Books
12-14, Newport Street
TIVERTON   Devon  EX16 6NL
tel: 01884 254488  e-mail  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00
Medium sized stock of rare and interesting books. PBFA member.

High Street Books
150 High Street  
HONITON  Devon  EX14 8JX
tel: 01404 45570  e-mail  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00
Spacious shop on two floors with wide-ranging stock of 12,000 plus books. Military, art, maritime, aviation, history and most other non-fiction subjects.
    Large stock which took over two hours to peruse. Hardly any potboilers but good interesting titles. - Chris Harte 14.04.09.

Ilfracombe Charity Bookshop
6A Church Street
ILFRACOMBE  Devon  EX34 8HA
tel: 01271 862020
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 12.00 & 2.00 - 4.00, Saturday 10.00 - 12.00.
    A small, well organised stock of reasonably priced books, which are much better than those in most charity bookshops. - TBG.

Lib-Dem Bookshop
48 High Street
CREDITON  Devon  EX1 73JP
tel: 01363 777903  e-mail  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00
An eclectic stock of paperbacks to antiquarian books. We rely on donations so stock varies over time. If travelling always best to ring first.

Macthorpe Books
2 Clifton Road
PAIGNTON  Devon  TQ3 3LN
tel: 01803 663400  e-mail  website  map
Open: Thursday, Friday & Saturday 10.00 -5.00.
A wide selection of secondhand books. Fiction and non-fiction. Antiquarian through to 21st Century. Good selection of Railway Books.
    My interest is collecting pocket (Observer's etc) and transport books, and can conform they indeed do have a good selection of railway books, reasonably priced. - Steve Newman 07.04.09.
    Sadly, the shop will close at lease end on June 30th. TBG 07.04.09.

Old Bridge Antiques Centre
BIDEFORD  Devon  EX39 2DR
tel: 01237 420909  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.45 - 5.00
    Peter Hames is no longer here, and whilst there are still books, they are now much less interesting. - TBG 31.07.08.

Paize Books (formally Books R Us)
2 Red Lyon Yard
OKEHAMPTON  Devon EX20  1AW
tel: 01837 52550  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00
About 10,000 secondhand books covering most subjects and some antiquarian titles.
    Definitely NOT worth a detour, a disgrace - Stephen 16.11.09.

The Pocket Bookshop
159 Winner Street  
PAIGNTON  Devon  TQ3 3BP
tel: 01803 529804  map
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.30 - 5.30
Small shop with a large stock of some 15,000 hardback and paperback titles covering most subjects.
    The owners certainly manage to pack the books in to this tiny shop, and you have to be feeling intrepid to get to the ones on the upper shelves. - TBG.

The Quay Antiques Centre
The Quay
TOPSHAM  Devon  EX3 0JB
tel: 01392 874006  map
Open: Every day (except Christmas day) from 10.00 - 5.00.
Post cards, books, posters, and large selection of advertising material.
    A number of stalls have books - Stephen 16.11.09.

Quayside Bookshop
43 Northumberland Place  
TEIGNMOUTH  Devon  TQ14 8DE
tel: 01626 775436  fax: 01626 777023
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.  e-mail  website  map
Quality new, secondhand and rare books including art, biographies, children's, cookery, DIY, educational, popular, period and classical fiction, gardening, crafts, health, music, new age, occult, reference, religion, sport, topography and travel. Comprehensive maritime, aviation and railway stock. We are located in the Heart of Teignmouth's Quayside Area and are surrounded by B&B's, Cafe's, Restaurants and pubs.

River Reads
21 South Street
TORRINGTON  Devon  EX38 8AA
tel: 01805 625888  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00
Angling and countryside literature and 'BB' specialist. Also general stock, including art, literature, transport and history.

Rod's
21 Southside Street
PLYMOUTH  Devon  PL1 2LD
tel: 01752 253546.
Open: ?
Speciality: naval/military.
    Small shop absolutely crammed with books, close to both the Book Cupboard and Cornerstone Books. - Richard 19.05.09.

The Sea Chest Nautical Bookshop
Queen Anne's Battery Marina  Coxside  
PLYMOUTH  Devon  PL4 0LP
tel: 01752 222012  fax: 01752 252679  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.00
A comprehensive stock of new and secondhand books and Admiralty charts.
     Does exactly what it says on the tin. - TBG.

Joel Segal Books
27 Fore Street  
TOPSHAM  Devon  EX3 0HD
tel: 01392 877895  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.30 - 5.00, closed for lunch 1.00 - 2.00.
A general stock of secondhand and out-of-print books on three floors, covering a wide range of subjects.
Love their colour themed window displays, and they always have a good selection of art and cinema titles. - TBG

Sidmouth Antiques Center
All Saints Road
SIDMOUTH  Devon  EX10 8ES
tel: 01395 512588  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00  Sundays 2.00 - 6.00.
The number of books has recently been reduced to half a dozen shelves and is no longer worth a special journey. - TBG 01.10.08.

Tarka Books
5 Bear Street  
BARNSTAPLE   Devon  EX32 7BU
tel: 01271 374997  e-mail  website  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.45 - 5.00
General seconhand bookshop with a selection of new titles.
    The stock was so dull that I could find nothing to like, let alone buy. - TBG 31.07.08
    Is this really a second-hand bookshop? - Chris Harte 14.04.09.
   As I run Tarka Books, I am of course biased, but in my opinion your comments where rude and unnecessary. We stock a wide range of titles and just because you didn't find anything to your liking on this occasion was no reason to call our stock dull. It is this kind of attitude that is the death of independent bookshops, your comments will be read by many people and as such should be given more thought or the next time you come to North Devon there may be no secondhand shops left and you will be left will just charity shops to satisfy your habit. - F. Broster Tarka Books 24.04.09.
    I visited Tarka Books last month and am astonished by the negative remarks of TBG and Chris Harte. Shame on them both! This is a well-stocked, well-organised, clearly-signed shop with a helpful lady presiding on the day I was there. The proprietor is right to be offended. If we all condemned a shop just because we we didn't find anything on the day we visited, there would be next to no secondhand bookshops left. - Laurence Purcell 12.10.09.

The Victoria Bookshop
9 Fore Street
BERE ALSTON  Devon  PL20 7AA
tel: 01822 841 638  e-mail  map
Open: Monday - Sunday 10.0 - 4.30, closed Wednesday.
About 60,000 mostly hardback volumes covering most subjects, but particularly occult, politics and psychology.
    Bere Alston is somewhat out of the way but The Victoria Bookshop makes the trip worthwhile. Behind the two roomed shop at the front are another 2 huge bookrooms . 'Allow 2 hours' as they say in the walking books. - Bookworm.
    I would advise customers to beware of upward revision of marked prices on purchase, and that they should expect to be abused if they take exception to this. Despite some good and fairly priced finds in the past, I will not be returning. - CNB
    This shop's opening hours have changed. They are now open on Mondays but not on Wednesdays - it is a long way to go to find them closed! - Simon 29.04.08
    I spent half a day of my holiday trying to find and then visiting this bookshop, based upon your online description. It does indeed have an impressively large stock. However, I was appalled to learn from the seller that the shop prices are between 10-20% HIGHER than than the ABE internet prices, even though I had spent a small fortune in petrol just getting there. More worryingly, they admitted to basing their prices on internet comparisons rather than actual subject knowledge, by way of explaining why they were asking ridiculous sums for certain books. As a result I spent much less than I would have ordinarily spent.- Avid Book Collector 25.07.08.

Graham York Rare Books
225 High Street
HONITON  Devon  EX14 1AH
tel: 01404 41727 fax: 01404 44993  e-mail  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00
Established in 1982, we are the leading specialists in books on the Gypsies and George Borrow, and carry a large stock of books on Spain and South Africa.
    Very high quality stock with a lot of unusual and varied titles. - Chris Harte 14.04.09.