About

Crappy Old Books aims to be the online version of our much endangered high street second hand book stores. Here you will find all sorts of junk that you just couldnt imagine.

Crappy Old Books also aims to provide all of these books at great rates.

The site was concieved on Monday 23rd Novemeber 2009, and is slowly growing. Hopefully over years it'll have much more to offer and will be a joy to browse through, just like our musty second hand book stores of yore.

Most of the books come from local libraries and have library stamps etc, donations, and many come from Florida in the USA where I go to regularly.

Free Book Clearance

We offer a free book clearance service. We can collect books around the Berkshire area, West London, and along the M4 through to Cardiff. Please call before to discuss suitability. Unable to take lots of large hard back books. Anything considered, just look at what's on this site and ask yourself if that looks like the sort of place for your books? Ideally prefer any military books, crime books, anything high-brow or eclectic, thrillers, history, poetry, old pre-ISBN books and slim paperbacks. Things that fit trough very small letter boxes.

Old Photos and Film

We are also interested in old photographs, in particular those of a topographical nature such as places, towns and views of England, Scotland or Wales. Again, we can't pay for these, but promise to give them a good home and offer many of them a place to sell on this site at a cheap price for all to benefit from. We are also interested in old films of places etc, again, with the interest of preserving them and making them available to a broader market. NOTE: We guarantee to sell all photographs and postcards for £1 plus £1 postage regardless. Don't let your cultural hertigage fall into the hands of price gougers who will sit on them at £20 a pop meaning they are good for no one. Domate to Crappy Old Books and ensure other people have a chance to get these historic items.

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