Please Note that the shop
has now closed, and we are only trading on the internet
Callers to the
Shaftesbury address strictly by appointment only.
Web site is currently
being updated
Dorset Rare Books buy and sell good
quality Antiquarian and Second-hand books on most subjects, good prices
paid.We can also sell books on a
commission basis for you.
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complete title, need be entered in the title field and any fields can be
left blank if desired.
To browse a particular subject,
say art, just enter art in the Keywords field.
Peter Shouler (owner of
Water Lane Bookshop, and one of the Salisbury Festival’s Read Programme sponsors) meets Sir John Major, who came
to talk about his new book about the history of cricket 'More
Than A Game', at the Salisbury International Arts festival 2007.
Click here: - For a
bibliography of the works of Thomas Hardy.
Click here: - For a
bibliography of the works of Norman Douglas.
Click here: - For notes and
bibliography of the High House Press, Shaftesbury.
Click here: - For notes on
the three editions of Hutchins’ History of Dorset and a plate
collation table for each.
To the Mrs Richards’s of
this world (of the FawltyTowers
variety) - please note that our staff have not
yet attended the training course on ‘How to Deal with Difficult Old Bags’.This applies to the lady who ordered a
copy of a book from us (the only copy in the UK) and subsequently
complained, as though it was the worst thing that had ever happened to
her,that one page had a pencil
annotation, which had escaped our cataloguer’s attention.We apologized for this, offered you a
full refund plus the return postage or a discount on the book, but
somehow all this was not enough – what more could we have done?
“What did you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House
perhaps? The HangingGardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping
majestically…!”
