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Edinburgh Books
145-147 West Port
Edinburgh
EH3 9DP
Telephone : 0131 229 4431
Email : edinburghbooks@hotmail.co.uk
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Opening Hours
9.15am-6pm, Monday to Saturday (later during the summer)
Directions
You’ll find us in Edinburgh’s Book Quarter, the West Port, which starts at the bottom of the Grassmarket in the Old Town and ceases just before you get to Tollcross. Handy buses are the 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 23, 24, 27, 45. The 2 & 35 stop opposite the shop.
We’re also just 5 minutes walk from the West End of Princes’ Street.
Twitter Feed
- Begins at 12pm on Friday at the Assembly Rooms. http://www.edinburghbookfair.co.uk/ http://fb.me/6hJVaUd
- can you feel the buzz? It's the antiquarian book fair calling to you. It's free to get in, but I can't promise... http://fb.me/KueKcdqjg
- Why did the mouse die in the Scottish Room? It was found next to Society of Antiquaries volumes. Bored to death.... ?
- They seek him here, they seek him there...blasted Orwell. No consideration. Could be anywhere - in Spain, down a mine etc etc. Not on shelf
- Just found a deid mouse in the Scottish Room. Puir Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie. An ex-mouse.
Recent blog entries
- In the beginning...
It has gone out of fashion in these post-modern times, but stories used to begin with a beginning, progress to a middle and conclude with an ending. Open-minded as I am, I have never minded a slight twist in the…
- Book Inscriptions # 1
You find all sorts of inscriptions in books, usually on the front endpaper, from the plain name and address to pledges of undying love. I came across one today at the front of a copy of ‘Grammont’s memoirs of the…
- A Scotch Carol
You find all sorts of interesting things stuck inside books: letters, tickets, obituaries, even money.
Today I found a Carol – a Scotch (or Scots) Carol in fact which I will now commit to cyberspace. It was typed on a small… - Move over skinny dog
Some customers are just funny. Funny peculiar I mean, not Funny ha-ha, though we have our fair share of those too.
One peculiar thing that these funny customers do is to go straight to a section where somebody else is already… - Dirty rotten thieves.
I don’t think we have a huge problem with theft but then again, I just don’t know. There are eight fairly sizeable rooms in the shop with thousands of books in each of them and although I try, it’s impossible…