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Used bookstores (usually called "second-hand bookshops" in Great Britain [1]) buy and sell used books and out-of-print books. A range of titles is available in used bookstores, including in print and out-of-print books. Book collectors tend to frequent used book stores. Large online bookstores offer used books for sale, too.
John Smith & Son is a United Kingdom academic bookseller, based in Ringwood.. Founded in 1751, it is the oldest bookselling company in the English-speaking world. [1] [2] It was based for many years at 57–61 St. Vincent Street in Glasgow, which was also its principal retail outlet.
The Old Bank bookshop is located in a former bank and customs house. As the Customs House fell out of use with the decline of the port, it was bought and expanded as a branch of the City of Glasgow Bank, later the National Bank. [47] [46] The Bookshop in Wigtown is Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. [48]
World of Books Group Limited is an online second-hand book retailer, trading under the names Wob, Ziffit, and Shopiago. [ a ] reported to be the United Kingdom's largest. [ 2 ] The company buys unsold inventory of used books mostly from UK charity shops.
Oxfam is the largest retailer of second-hand books in Europe, selling around 12 million per year. Most of Oxfam's 600 charity shops around the UK sell books, and around 100 are specialist bookshops or book and music shops. A typical Oxfam bookshop will have around 50 volunteers, as well as a small number of full-time staff. [1]
The words in two books, written 77 years apart, illuminate through hope. “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness,” wrote 13-year-old Anne Frank in her 1944 diary.
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Xavier Driffield (1948 - 2023), [1] also known as Driff Field, drif field, driffield, dryfeld or simply Drif, was a figure in the British bookdealing world during the 1980s and 1990s and published several editions of the acerbic Driff's Guide to secondhand and antiquarian bookshops in Britain.