Books bought & sold

23/05/2023

Attention all bibliophiles: Second hand book market in centre of Le Vigan (Quai des possibles).

Last Tuesday of the month (May - September) beginning May 30th all day.

Large selection of books in French and English.

Grande Nouvelle! La création d'un marché du livre d'occasion au Vigan, qui se tiendra le dernier mardi du mois (de Mai à Septembre) sur le Quai des possibles toute la journée. Ça commence le 30 Mai.
Les bouquinistes, membres de La Mémoire du Livre, association de libraires professionnels, seront présents. Grand choix de livres en français, en anglais, mais aussi de livres rares et anciens. C'est aussi le jour du marché fermier. Le Vigan proposera ainsi à ses visiteurs une nourriture à la fois pour le corps et pour l'esprit !
Contact: Bill 06 37 30 45 26

21/05/2021

Bill’s sky-covered book shop in centre of Montpellier.
L'esplanade Charles-de-Gaulle. Open tomorrow.

11/02/2020

I hope to be back on the esplanade tomorrow
with a fresh stock of great
paperbacks.

07/10/2019

Who will buy my ‘An Unsuitable Boy’?
Some books don’t sell. That’s a sad inescapable fact for any book dealer, which means
some books must go. We are always culling. Loose binding or some other defect
may make the decision easy. But what about those books in near pristine condition.
They may even be first editions and regarded as modern classics. Books like my
copy of Vikram Seth’s ‘A Suitable Boy,’ whose 1349 pages weigh in at a little less than two kilograms.
This is essentially the problem, of course. Exorbitant postage costs mean that the book is unlikely to be sold online. And bibliophiles who encounter my copy (at a knock down price) on my stand at book markets are no more inclined to make a purchase. And this is because Seth’s great Indian literary saga is a veritable tome; a wrist ache if not read from a lectern. It may be a fine work of fiction but the copy I have is just about unsellable. What to do? I have no need of a door stop, or of a paper paper weight. I can’t keep taking it to markets. It takes up the space of three or four saleable books. I am thus reduced to having heretical thoughts like surreptitiously binning it or breaking the bindings and tearing whole chapters out, so as to read in comfort what the critics have compared to War and Peace. Making it into a serial novel, you might say.

30/01/2018

30/01/2018

On Ping Pong and Other Addictions now available in paperback.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ping-Pong-Other-Addictions/dp/1976955793

Best wishes,
Bill

31/12/2017

This strange tale of sporting obsession is set in a Habit Hostel where addictions aren’t considered a vice. Provided you stick to the one to which you have been assigned. Which Mustard Wycombe Jones, middle aged narrator of On Ping Pong and Other Addictions, is patently struggling to do. F...

31/12/2017

Too cold to sell books outside.
So trying to sell my latest on line:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078PL58KP

Happy New Year to one and all

This strange tale of sporting obsession is set in a Habit Hostel where addictions aren’t considered a vice. Provided you stick to the one to which you have been assigned. Which Mustard Wycombe Jones, middle aged narrator of On Ping Pong and Other Addictions, is patently struggling to do. F...

15/09/2017

Tomorrow I won't be in Montpellier, I will be selling English books at a book fair in Saint Guilhem le Désert, a beautiful medieval village.