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Our glebe and blackheath branches both carry extensive secondhand sections and between them stock around 20,000 titles. Sydney has a great collection of new and secondhand bookshops stocked with the latest pageturners, vintage classics, glossy coffee table books and hardto find. So, over the last few years ive taken to visiting secondhand bookstores in sydney to pick up nearly new versions of some of the best selling books on the high street. Astrolabe booksellers is the leading antiquarian second hand used bookseller in australias island state. Browse through the online book catalogue at elizabeths bookshop, one of australias largest second hand bookselling operations. This veteran group of shops which also has outlets in the city. Since 1989 the shop was at the city end of king st, newtown, but moved in late 2018. Where to find 12 of sydneys best book shops urban list sydney.
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One of australias oldest libraries, braille house in annerley, is brisbanes newest secondhand bookshop. Secondhand bookshop with a courtyard cafe and wine bar located in glebe, sydney. Jun 21, 2016 st kevins arcade boasts not one but two great holeinthe wall places to buy second hand books. Gleebooks online bookshop and literary events sydney australia. Kinokuniya sydney offers a large range of books with over 300,000 titles in english, japanese, chinese, french and german. Browse through the online book catalogue at elizabeths bookshop, one of australias largest secondhand bookselling operations. They send the books out to regular bookstores and department stores and they sit on the shelf waiting to be purchased.
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