The Dales & Lakes Book Centre
72 Main StreetSedbergh
Cumbria LA10 5AD
Phone: 015396 20125
The Dales & Lakes Book Centre houses a number of book dealers offering a wide range of quality secondhand books on many subjects. A selection of the dealers is shown below.
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bluebell bookshop | Derbyville Books | Gerald Tyler | Henry Wilson Books |
| Janet Christie, Harvest Books | John Smith NorthWest Book Fairs | MCL Books | Peter Manning | Michael F Hart |
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bluebell bookshop
The bluebell bookshop in Penrith has long been a place of pilgrimage for book lovers in Cumbria. They have a huge stock of new titles which they are keen to share in their space in the Dales and Lakes Book Centre. The bluebell room is the place to look for gifts and goodies whether for yourself or friends and family. There is also a selection of calendars, cards, toys and games.
Bluebell bookshop can supply any in-print book or music for delivery either to the Dales and Lakes Book Centre or to your home, orders should arrive within 48 hours. There is no charge for the service and staff at the Dales and Lakes Book Centre and at bluebell in Penrith will be happy to research subjects and help you identify titles you may have heard about. Bluebell will also be happy to obtain books for you to look at ‘on approval’.
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Derbyville Books
A selection of general subjects, history and art.
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Gerald Tyler
A collection covering collectable history, sets and older local topography.
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Henry Wilson Books
Henry Wilson has been established as a specialist dealer in transport books since 1983 and has been trading from his shop in Sedbergh’s Main Street since 2008 with a large range of new and second-hand books covering most aspects of railways at home and abroad. Stock ranges from fine antiquarian items contemporary with the beginnings of railways to many more recent out of print titles. Most current UK railway titles are carried with an emphasis on specialist publishers such as Oakwood Press, Irwell Press and Wild Swan. Railway titles are complemented by books on canals, shipping, trucks, buses and trams, motor cars in addition to many books on industrial and social history.
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Janet Christie, Harvest Books
Harvest Books have a small, mainly specialist stock with an emphasis on illustrated books including Country Life, Folklore, English Literature of 19th and 20th centuries, Social History and Women.
Books are also available via Internet orders and at Book Fairs in the North West of England.
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John Smith NorthWest Book Fairs
Special interest Labour Party History and industrial relations and history, local interest.
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MCL Books
MCL Books have a good selection of collectable books, the main focus being Natural History (especially Collins' New Naturalist Series and the Wayside and Woodland Series from FW Warne), children's books and a good selection of reference books, relating to antiques and collectables.
In addition they have a range of Observers Books.
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Peter Manning Books
Guide books for Yorkshire and the north of England, waterways.
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Michael F Hart
Books on Woodworking and other similar subjects.
