We Buy Books

Academic books we are always interested in hearing about...

We are always looking to buy academic books in our specialist areas. We prefer more recently out of print items by which we mean published after 1980. If you have books to sell in these key areas please contact us:

Literary criticism on any era but especially Victorian literature and Modernist literature
Literary theory including reader response, feminist, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, marxist, new historicist etc
Literary biography, autobiography and writers' letters and diaries etc.
Books about literary criticism, or the history and development of criticism
History of the British Isles including specifically English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish histories
African history and politics
Historiography
Politics, including labour movement history, and especially small press publications such as Pluto Press
Philosophy
Biblical languages including Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek
Theology inlcuding Chrstian theology and theologians and Jewish theology and theologians as well as Biblical exegesis
Dictionaries, especially those covering minority langauges or non-British English
Classics: Ancient Greek and Latin texts especially dual language texts, plus histories of Rome or Ancient Greece
Dual language fiction or poetry in any language
Medieval English, Norse, Icelanic or other Northern European Sagas or mythology in the original or translated
Anglo-Saxon literature and critiques of Old English works
Psychology

Authors we are always interested in hearing about...

We buy works about most authors but especially:

Jane Austen
Ann Radcliffe
William Godwin
Mary Wollstonecraft
John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé)
Maria Edgeworth
Susan Ferrier
Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë
Elizabeth Gaskell
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
E. M. Forster
Virginia Woolf
T. S. Eliot
David Jones
Wilfred Owen
Ezra Pound
Ford Madox Ford
Elizabeth von Arnim
Katherine Mansfield
James Joyce
Graham Greene
W. H. Auden
Ted Hughes
Sylvia Plath
Angela Carter
Josephine Tey
Georgette Heyer

Children's books we are always interested in hearing about...

Any English language children's hardbacks pre 1970 - fiction or poetry
Children's books in translation
Biographies, autobiographies, letters, diaries or memoirs of children's authors
Literary criticism of any children's writers and their books
Histories of education, children's literature, or public schools
Matt Ladybird books invery good condition especially foreign language Ladybird books

Local history books we are always interested in hearing about...

Please contact us if you have local history books to sell for any part of the British Isles. Our main local history specialisms are Yorkshire and Lancashire but we do buy books on towns, villages and people from other part of the country. We are very keen to buy books on:

Towns, villages, parishes of the West, East and North Ridings of Yorkshire
Towns, villages, parishes of Lancashire
Industrial and transport history pertaining to Yorkshire or Lancashire
Family or geneaological histories or pedigrees
Biographies of influential Yorkshire or Lancashire men and women who lived before WWII
Books on northern English authors: the Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell, Leo Walmsley, Ted Hughes, John Ruskin and the Lakes poets, Andrew Marvell etc.
Other northern English counties especially Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumberland and Westmorland (erroneously Cumbria and Merseyside)
We are particularly interested in books local to us in the West Riding covering Craven, Skipton, Grassington, Settle, the Yorkshire Dales, Leeds, Bradford or Keighley.

We only occasionally buy fiction and poetry...

Other than children's fiction we buy the following types of fiction and poetry:

Macmillan Cranford series - or anythingillustrated by then Brock brother, Hugh Thomson and Chris Hammond
Art Nouveau bindings such as those by A. A. Turbayne
Crime fiction
Totally out of print or hard-to-find authors such as Mrs Linnaeus Banks, Geraldine Jewsbury, John Cowper Powys, also David Jones, Charles Williams etc.
Signed, first edition or limited edition novels, short stories and poetry

We do not buy...

Book Club excluding Folio Society
General or modern popular fiction
Military history

Please contact us if you have books in the above areas to sell, or if you are unsure as we would rather be offered too many books than too few. When contacting us please let us know where you and the books are in the country. Thank you.