We buy books
If you have any books that you would like to sell to us, let us know. We are interested in a number of different authors and genres and will buy individual titles as well as whole collections.
There is no need to worry if you do not live locally; we will either travel to you or arrange a courier service.
The rare book market is constantly evolving and, due to a number of external factors, the prices of given titles rise and fall over time. We will always endeavour to research the current market price of your books thoroughly and offer you the fairest price that this will allow.
We are also happy to sell your books on your behalf. This can be a slower process, as it often takes time for the book to sell to the right collector. However, the advantage of this method is that you are likely to achieve a higher price than if you sell to a dealer directly or put your items into an auction.
Our commission rates will be competitive and we will market and list your books for sale on our website and in our book stores on AbeBooks, Biblio and eBay, if you would like us to.
If you have any books that you think may be of interest to us, please fill in the form below and we will get back to you as quickly as we can.
We have included a list of the sort of authors we would be interested in below for guidance:
Authors A-I
A
A A Milne – First or early editions
Agatha Christie – First editions
Aldous Huxley – First editions
Anne Rice – Early First editions
Anthony Burgess – First editions
Arthur C. Clarke – Early first editions, any signed books
Arthur Conan Doyle – First or early editions
Arthur Miller – First editions
Arthur Rackham – First editions
B
Beatrix Potter – First editions
Bram Stoker – First editions
Brian Aldiss – Early first editions
Bronte (Charlotte, Emily) – First editions or any early editions
C
Charles Darwin – Early editions
Charles Dickens – Early editions or first editions
China Mieville – Early first editions, any signed first editions, limited editions
Clive Barker – Early first edition or signed first editions
Colin Dexter – Early first editions, any signed first editions
C.S Forester – First editions
C.S. Lewis – First editions, early editions
D
Daphne du Maurier – first editions
David Gemmell – Early first editions, any signed first editions
David Mitchell – First editions
D.H Lawrence – First editions
Dick Francis – Early first editions or signed first editions
Douglas Adams – First Editions
Dylan Thomas – First Editions
E
E.B. White – First editions
Edgar Allan Poe – Early editions or first editions
Edmund Dulac – First editions
Enid Blyton – First editions
Ernest Hemingway – First editions
Evelyn Waugh – First editions
F
Folio Society Books – Limited editions
Frank Baum – First editions
Franz Kafka – First Editions
F. Scott Fitzgerald – Early editions or first editions
G
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – first editions
George Orwell – First editions
H
Hans Andersen – First editions
Harper Lee – First editions
Haruki Murakami – First editions
Herman Melville – First editions
H.G. Wells – First editions
H,P. Lovecraft – First editions
I
Iain Banks – Early first editions, signed first editions
Ian Fleming – First editions
Ian McEwan – Early first editions, signed first editions
Iris Murdoch – First editions
Isaac Asimov – First editions
Authors J-Z
J
Jack Kerouac – First editions
J.D Salinger – First editions
J.G. Ballard – First Editions
J.K Rowling – First editions, signed books
J.M. Barrie – Early editions or first editions
Joe Abercrombie – Early first editions, any signed first editions
Joe Hill – Signed first editions, limited editions
John Buchan – First editions
John le Carré – Early first editions, any signed first editions, limited editions
John Steinbeck – First editions
John Stuart Mill – First editions
John Wyndham – First editions
J.R.R. Tolkien – Early editions or first editions
Jules Verne – First Editions
Julian Barnes – Early first editions or any signed first editions
K
Kazuo Ishiguro – First editions
Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – first editions
Kingsley Amis – First editions
Kurt Vonnegut – First editions
L
Lawrence Durrell – First editions
Lewis Carroll – Early editions
Louis de Bernieres – Early first editions
M
Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind – first or early editions
Martin Amis – Early first editions, any signed first editions
N
Neil Gaiman – Early first editions, signed books, limited editions
Nevil Shute – First editions
O
P
P. G. Wodehouse – First editions
Philip K Dick – First editions
Philip Pullman – Early first editions, any signed first editions
Q
R
Ray Bradbury – First editions
Richard Adams – First editions
Richard Bachman – First editions
Richard Matheson – First editions
Roald Dahl – First editions
Rudyard Kipling – First editions
S
Salman Rushdie – Early first editions or signed first editions
Stephen King – Any US first editions, proofs or UK first editions pre-1990, limited editions, signed books
T
T.E Lawrence – First Editions
Terry Pratchett – Early first editions, any signed first editions
Theodore Sturgeon – First editions
T.S. Eliot – First editions
U
Ursula K. Le Guin – First editions
V
Virginia Woolf – First editions
Vladimir Nabokov – First editions
W
William Golding – First editions
Wyndham Lewis – First editions
X
Y
Yann Martel – Signed first editions
Z