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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.
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- Bitch wanted to produce puppies from bookshop dog Struan the collie - see pictures - http://bit.ly/azXJdP
- Little old lady just brought in "Dosworth" 1st ed. by Sinclair Lewis signed & dedicated "Dear Vita & Harold, all our love - Sinclair Lewis"
- Clarence believes that nasty, grubby,foul-mouthed men who smoke in our doorway ought to have a bucket of water thrown over them. I agree.
Recent blog entries
- Beware the Ulsterman my son...
I bought a wee book at the auction today called Malice in Kulturland by Horace Wyatt, published by The Car Illustrated in 1915. It’s a satire on the political situation in Europe at the start of the Great War in the style…
- 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…