Pages & Proofs

The Wisden Shop in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, sells… well…Wisdens – the bible of the cricket world since 1864. Chris Ridler is the man behind this specialist bookselling venture and I’ll let him tell his story. It’s a tale that goes way beyond books. “The main oddity may be that I am really just a collector […]

Today, we have published our annual list of the most expensive sales of the year. The list for 2014 is remarkable for many reasons. A copy of Das Kapital sold for a staggering sum. There were appearances from legendary books like Dune, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hobbit, Ulysses, and A Farewell to Arms. A […]

Our friends at Books2Anywhere, one of our longtime booksellers, have sliced 55% off the RRP price for more than 200 titles published by Oxford University Press. This offer lasts until December 31. Lots of classic literature is available here, including some masterpieces from Trollope, Kipling, Woolf and Lovecraft. There is also a decent helping of […]

Forget London, ignore Paris, neglect New York. Let’s go to some isolated, hard-to-find bookshops where the passion for books burns brightly. From a Welsh hillside with no neighbours for miles around to a remote peninsula in Alaska, visit some of the world’s most remote bookshops – all of whom sell on the AbeBooks marketplace. Destination […]

And now, for something completely different….when’s the last time you had a good dose of weird? The Weird Book Room has been updated again and has more titles than ever. It’s an uplifting experience to visit the WBR and frolic about in the weirdness. The Weird Book of the Week this time around is Do-It-Yourself […]