J&M Books - Specialist Dealers in
Rare & Antiquarian Books

We are rare and antiquarian book dealers based, for our sins, in Liverpool in the North-West of England.

When describing our books, we attempt to list any significant defects in a concise and accurate manner. Any additional information about a particular book may be couched in rather more flowery and hyperbolic terms, depending on whether we have actually read it and thought it good or not, and as such should not taken too seriously!

We will happily sell anything that we deem as interesting that comes our way, but we tend to loosely specialise in literary fiction, pre 1960, particularly titles published by Constable, John Lehmann and Jonathan Cape. We also like pre-war weird, science fiction and supernatural titles, and of course detective fiction, if only for the fun factor of the lurid artwork and sensationalist titles.

New stock is added every month and can be found on the recent acquisitions page, we also have a reasonably good search function which should allow you to go straight to the specific author or title that you are seeking, or at least establish quickly that we don’t currently have any such books in stock.

Following on from that, if you have any specific wants we are always very happy to hear from you, and enjoy the challenge of seeking out the more obscure and exotic titles.

We are also always looking to buy books, so if the excitement has gone from your relationship with certain titles and authors, or indeed your entire collection, then we will happily relieve you of them and find new and suitable homes.