A new bookshop with a large general stock of secondhand and some antiquarian books.
A long established cheap shop with a good turnover and frequent sales. Very likeable staff. One of my very favourite shops for 24 years. M.G. Conor
I have now made three recent visits to this shop and each time I find treasures hidden away. The two floors are mainly secondhand but it is upstairs where the good stuff is to be found. Pricing on the low side. If visiting take time for a decent search. Chris Harte 13.10.09
I've been visiting this shop regularly since 1985 (so M.G.Conor and I must have started going there almost simultaneously) and can only confirm the praise heaped on it by earlier reviewers. I always find good things there. It's also attached to an independent record shop with plenty of secondhand CDs etc. Letchworth hasn't got much to recommend it - the early garden city houses are very fine if you like that sort of thing, but David's is the jewel in the crown of the town. David Gouldstone 30.10.09
Friendly, long-established shop with continually renewed general stock, frequent sales, huge cheap tables outside, interesting new and remaindered book sections, attached music shop, and a real community purpose. conormg 27.01.11
Great hour or two on a bank holiday searching through the extensive secondhand sections of this fine shop. Spent around £65 on a nice stack of books (from £1.50 to £10 each), very good prices, especially on the older, obscure books, of which there were plenty. All in all, definitely one not to miss. M&O 05.09.12
This shop is highly recommendable. There is a vast selection of books and vinyl and prices are generally fair and consistent. We bought some interesting things on our last visit and shall certainly be going back when we are in that neck of the woods. Nicholas Pendower 08.09.12
Plenty to enjoy on my first visit for several years. Good for military history in particular. And there is now a cafe instore. Herne 30.11.12
I agree with the positive comments already posted. One thing I found (and is this an observation not a criticism) is that some of the stock was not shelved where I would have expected to find it so it can be worth looking off the beaten track, so to speak. Steven Whitehead 06.03.13
This is a fantastic place. A very wide range with literary fiction being very strong. Friendly staff, late opening and a cafe make for a great experience. Jon Wells 15.06.13
Good selection here, several quite unusual finds, and reasonably priced too. Duly added to my list of regular calls! George Hale 12.08.14
Update as visited last week; still as good as ever. Superb s/h selection at reasonable prices. Still very much WAD. Norman Davies 21.08.14
I don't get it? Someone help me out here. With anticipation I put 3 hours on parking, here I am back in car 20 minutes later. Found literature weak and uninspiring - for instance, a dearth of early editions / no more than a handful of orange penguins. Art was better, sure, but... V disappointed - I mean it's okayish, for a new book bookshop but won't bother again. I'm baffled. Please, someone, tell me I've missed an entire floor or something. Oh well, Felixstowe next time I feel like a jaunt. Yossarian 04.01.15
For Yossarian (4.1.15). Did you try upstairs? Steven 09.01.15
Mostly new books and old records, with a nice cafe in the corner. Small "strong room" downstairs with art books etc, more general stock upstairs and outside in barrows. Pleasant atmosphere, reasonable prices. Mark V 02.04.15
Five and a half long years since my previous visit and I should be ashamed of myself for this bookshop is quite superb. Even the long tables of cheap books outside the shop were reeking of quality. First floor holdings were categorised and then sub-categorised. Brilliant. Purchased many which would have been more except for the most strange pricing of the top-of-the-range material. Chris Harte 15.06.15
A really nice bookshop with a great cafe attached. The number and quality of secondhand books on the first floor is greater than many stand-alone secondhand bookshops. There is always the plus of the remainder and paperback fiction section on the ground floor at the back.There are several other charity shops in Letchworth and it is a nice town of a certain era. Jon Morgan 23.10.15
Oh for the days when there was a shop such as this in every town. A busy and popular new section with an interesting and wide ranging secondhand department plus a large lucky dip barrow on the pavement outside. WWAD. Steven 23.11.18
Some second hand is in the bright ground floor, but most of the second hand stock is upstairs, accessed by an unobtrusive door to the left of the counter, easily missed. Persevere as it may well be worth it. Peter M 26.07.21
My first visit for a couple of years and still WWAD. The café has gone but there are plenty of other places to eat and drink in the town centre. There is a good balance of new, remaindered, old, and antiquarian books and most subjects are covered. Staff are knowledgeable and etgow and there is three hours free parking at Morison's supermarket a five minute walk away. Steven 15.10.21
Rear of the downstairs is given over to secondhand, remaindered stock with a larger, high quality second hand section upstairs, and a superb collection of 50’s and 60’s Pan and Penguin originals. There is also a large area outside of very cheap and in some cases probably unsellable stock outside on trolleys. That road I found a really good and not too out of date book on modern France there for 95p. Prices inside were very reasonable. There really ought to be a bookshop like this in every town! Firedrake 02.12.21
I never leave without a small box of purchases. Today's visit saw me leave after three hours but I needed another two so I could check the quite superb downstairs Art section. There have been minor changes to the shop's layout, but all for the better. A must-visit on anyone's agenda. Chris 19.02.24
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