6 Feb 2010, 1:05pm
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  • “Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred.”
    Gunther Grass
  • Clearance Sale at Quinto Bookshop this month

    Everything in the Quinto Bookshop basement is on sale at fantastic clearance prices this month, with all books priced at between £1 and £5.

    Quinto and Francis Edwards Bookshops will be relocating to a new Charing Cross Road location in March, so come in and make the most of our sale before the big move.

    Our exciting relocation plans include a major shop refurbishment and re-stock – we’ll be advertising the details very soon, so watch this space!

    5 Jan 2010, 3:40pm
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  • “The ideal bookshop is place where books are harboured tenderly, understood intelligently and passed on discriminatingly.”
    Ruth Brown Park 'Bookshops and How to Run Them', 1929
  • New year, new books

    NeilHappy new year from Quinto Bookshop!

    We’re starting 2010 as we mean to go on … with a basement full of new acquisitions of second-hand books. Downstairs is now open after our latest changeover, with a great selection of books on all subjects. The travel, history and military sections are particularly strong this month, with some good stuff in art and literature too.

    17 Dec 2009, 7:03pm
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  • “Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”
    Augustine Birrell Obiter Dicta, 'Book Buying'
  • Buy Books for Christmas!

    giltLooking for a unique, beautiful and interesting present for someone this Christmas? An old book could be the perfect find, and Francis Edwards and Quinto bookshops currently both have a great stock of unusual, collectible, fascinating or just downright strange books on every subject from figure skating to flying stunt kites.

    Books in the basement start from a couple of pounds if you’re after a funny Secret Santa, or if you’re searching for something really special, the Francis Edwards antiquarian department upstairs has many lovely first editions, rare and illustrated books starting from £20.

    We know our books well, so to help you out we’ve already started picking out some perfect presents. Follow the red gift tags round the shop for inspiration…

    1 Dec 2009, 2:33pm
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  • “Selling books is like a game. It has rules, and you better learn those rules quick, ‘cos it's not a game!”
    Black Books
  • Quinto Bookshop basement re-stock today

    electrical1We’ve just completed the latest re-stock of the Quinto Bookshop basement – the basement will be re-opening at 2pm today. This month it’s a good mix of subjects, with a great selection of history and art titles. This month many of the books are new or in excellent condition, but still at second-hand prices, so a chance for some early Christmas shopping.

    We’ll also be having a top-up delivery of new acquisitions on Thursday 3rd December.

    3 Nov 2009, 1:14pm
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  • “Lord! When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.”
    Christopher Morley
  • Religion and golf at Quinto Bookshop

    golfReligion and golf (one and the same thing for some?) are the hot subjects this month in the Quinto Bookshop basement. We re-open the basement at 2pm today after our latest complete re-stock, and there are great collections of second-hand books on Judaism, Buddhism, Sufism, New Age spirituality, ancient history, classical literature and reams of books on everything golf related, from golfing history to how to perfect your swing.

    The basement opens at 2pm, so come and join the queue to get your hands on the newest finds and take part in one of the strangest sights in the book trade.

    28 Oct 2009, 3:58pm
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  • “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges
  • Halloween changeover at Quinto Bookshop

    pumpkinThis Halloween weekend we’ll be comletely re-stocking our basement during our latest changeover. The basement will close on the afternoon of Saturday 31st October, and re-open with all new stock on Tuesday 3rd November at 2pm. The Francis Edwards antiquarian section of the shop on the ground floor will stay open as usual.

    We’re due to be getting good selections of books modern history, religion and Eastern mysticism, plus many other subjects. The queue to view the new arrivals starts at 2pm, so get here early to join the scrum.

    27 Oct 2009, 2:59pm
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  • “The road to ignorance is paved with good editions.”
    George Bernard Shaw
  • Last chance to browse our aviation collection

    amyjohnsonThis week is the last chance to get your hands on our current huge collection of aviation books in the Quinto Bookshop basement. Purchased from a private collector, this is a lifetime’s worth of reading for an aviation enthusiast, with particularly extensive coverage of early aviation, the history of the R.A.F, aviation in World War II and American aviation.

    This coming weekend we close our basement for our latest re-stock, so if you’re interested in planes, zeppelins, balloons, helicopters or other air ware, make sure you check out the shop this week. If you can’t make it down in time, then Francis Edwards on our ground floor always has a good selection of aviation titles available.

    23 Oct 2009, 12:30pm
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  • “A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
    Mark Twain
  • New delivery of antiquarian and collectible stock

    testamentYesterday’s delivery of new acquisitions for the Francis Edwards shop on our ground floor was a mixed bag of subjects – history, religion, Africa and some nice art books. Downstairs in Quinto bookshop we still have an impressive collection of aviation titles. Accumulated over a lifetime by an aviation enthusiast, there’s a huge range of titles, including both modern books and rarer older editions, and every aviation subject is covered, from early flight to airships.

    7 Oct 2009, 3:27pm
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  • “Secondhand books are wild books, homeless books. They have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
    Virginia Woolf
  • Books We Love – The Secret History, Procopius

    procopius“If you enjoyed Seutonious and Tacitus, this is your next read. Lots of salacious details on the emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora. The work falls in the grey area between drama and historical fact.”

    by Neil

    Books We Love are reviews by Quinto staff of our favourite finds from the current stock.

    6 Oct 2009, 1:56pm
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  • “A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
    Mark Twain
  • Aviation special for this month’s changeover

    how_to_flyThe Quinto Bookshop basement opens at 2pm today after our latest monthly restock. There’s some great stuff in this month – the specialist subject is aviation, with a whole room of books on every subject related to the history of flying, from early pioneers to the present day. There’s also a good selection of travel books, especially on Africa and India, religious books, including an unusual selection of titles on Sufism and some beautiful fashion books. As usual there are also many other subjects to browse through.

    We’ll also be getting a stock top-up this Thursday, so the shelves should be interesting hunting grounds for a while!

     
      
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