We currently stock approximately 50,000 second-hand books on (almost) every conceivable subject. Unfortunately, we don’t have a database of these titles so it’s a case of visiting the shop and being prepared to lose yourself for hours at a time in the relevant sections to try to find what it is you’re after…
We do, however, have a number of specialist and antiquarian books listed online at ABE Books, which can be searched via the following link:
Browse our Specialist Used & Antiquarian Database
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Have books you want to sell?
Our book-buying is done by appointment only. Please call 01629 823272 and ask to speak to David Booker if you have a collection you wish to bring in. For the majority of ‘bread-and-butter’ stock, we tend to offer a little credit to spend in the shop in return for anything we’re able to take, but can offer cash for larger or more specialist collections.
Want us to track down an out of print book?
We offer a book search service, tracking down rare and out of print titles. There’s no charge for us to get a quote (price, condition, etc), with just a small admin fee (included in the price quoted) if you decide to go ahead with the order. To track down that elusive book, just call us or complete our online book search form
Featured Second Hand Items
February 2020: Ravilious and Co.
We’ve recently taken in a highly collectable collection of works by Eric Ravilious. Included in the collection are limited edition books including his painted work, wood engravings, essays, correspondence, and murals all spanning from childhood to his death in 1942. Works by Edward Bawden, Ravilious and Bawden’s teacher Paul Nash, Derek Harris, and Claire Leighton also included in this collection.
Please click here to view works for sale.
For more information contact Scarthin Books on nickscarthin@gmail.com or 01629 823272.
02/2018: Latest Second Hand Acquisition – Graphic Novels
We recently took in a fantastic collection of second hand graphic novels, including a collection of Sturgeon White Moss (including issue 1) and a winter number one issue of the ongoing comic book Crickets by Sammy Harkham.
The collection boasts a wide and impressive range of material, and is sure to appeal to casual readers and collectors alike!
Prices in this collection range from £5 – £30.
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Post created by Lucas (work experience student), 02/2018
Photo Album: Dependency of Lagos (Now sold)
A particularly fascinating recent purchase is a stout cloth-bound album of photographs of the Dependency of Lagos, later to be the capital of Nigeria, marked “collected 1891/92”.
The collection was made by someone working for merchant company John D Fairley, which, being involved in palm oil and kernel shipping may be one of many ancestors of Unilever. There are some forty-six approximately full-plate sized landscape-oriented photographs, 8 by 6 inches or a bit smaller or larger, four half-plate sized, about 6 by 4 inches and eight “snap”-sized photographs 3½ by 2¼ inches.
As usual the photographs, sepia but not badly-faded, are glued firmly to both sides of the card leaves. The subjects include the raising of the British flag in two locations, the scene of a treaty signing between the “King of Ado” and the British Governor, a surprising “gift of boys” by Dahomian messengers to “The Queen and Governor” (so slavery cannot have been entirely dead), various groups of British merchants and administrators, groups of courtly natives, studies of individual native men, women and children and several of the opening of what was presumably the first railway in Nigeria.
Included are two photographs taken at the Niger settlements of Oritsha and Lokoja and just two photographs of Madeira and one of Tenneriffe. Most unusually (and valuably), nearly every photograph is captioned and many of the British are named (usually surname only). Buildings in the landscapes are also identified in hand-writing. This is a significant addition to the pictorial source-material for the early 1890’s in Nigeria.
Dave Mitchell, October 2017