Quinto Bookshop, Charing Cross Road

Work starts at 72 Charing Cross Road

This is the space that will be transformed over the next 14 days into the new Quinto and Francis Edwards Bookshops, at 72 Charing Cross Road. Work has already started, and at the old premises at number 48a, our clearance sale continues, with all books reduced to below £5.

The new shop will open on Tuesday 23rd March at 2pm, with fresh stock and free glasses of fizz for the first arrivals.

The Big Move Day 6: The Sale Spreads

The clearance sale at Quinto Bookshop is bigger than ever this week as more boxes of sale stock hit the shelves, with even the extra temporary shelving groaning under the weight of the bargains. The fiction section is particularly well-stocked, with lots of brand-new books for £1 or £2.

Meanwhile, we’re working to fit and stock our new premises at 72 Charing Cross Road, where we’ll be re-locating on 23rd March.

The Amazing Moving Bookshop … Day 1

The lesson we learned at Quinto today was, stick a big red sign in the window of a Charing Cross Road bookshop on a Saturday afternoon announcing that you’re selling off books from £1 each, and within ten minutes the customers will be crowding in like a herd of book-loving wildebeest hungry for a bargain.

The big sale is on because Quinto and Francis Edwards Bookshops started the big move up the street today, closing part of the shop to begin boxing up books in preparation for our re-location.

Most of the shop is still in business though, and we’ve got thousands of books in the clearance sale in the basement priced between £1 and £5. The sale will be going on right up until the 19th March, with new stock going out onto the sale shelves every day, so there are some amazing bargains to be had. The new shop at 72 Charing Cross Road opens on 23rd March at 2pm.

Quinto Bookshop is moving…

From Tuesday 23rd March, Quinto Bookshop will be re-locating to number 72 Charing Cross Road, just a few doors up the street from our current location.

We’re sad to be leaving number 48a. There has been a bookshop at this number for over a hundred years, so a little bit of London history is disappearing with us. But Quinto & Francis Edwards Bookshops aren’t disappearing – we’ll be selling the same antiquarian, rare, collectible and second-hand books just a stone’s throw away at number 72 Charing Cross Road.

We’ll be continuing our monthly “changeover”, the complete re-stocking of the basement. For our grand opening at the new shop on Tuesday 23rd March, there’ll be a complete restock of our basement with all new acquisitions, and a major refresh of our rare and antiquarian stock on the ground floor.

Come along at 2pm on March 23rd for a complimentary glass of bubbly as you browse our latest acquisitions and explore our new premises.

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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!

New year, new books

Happy 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.

Buy Books for Christmas!

Looking 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…

Quinto Bookshop basement re-stock today

We’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.

Religion and golf at Quinto Bookshop

Religion 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.

Halloween changeover at Quinto Bookshop

This 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.