Welcome to Abbey Secondhand Books in Paisley
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2 Well Street 0141 887 7303 Mon-Sat: 10:15am - 5:15pm |
This site is no longer updated.
Sadly I had to move the site off Spanglefish so that I could connect to a database. Please go to http://abbeybookspaisley.co.uk
The shop is at 2 Well St - near the University and Paisley Museum and Library. About 400m west of both. About 1km west of the station. See map.
Abbey Books has 40,000 books (who's counting?) on a wide range of topics. Almost too much history, poetry and fiction never mind art, music and drama. And then there's the children's books! Oh, and sheet music!
If you are wondering if this is the Abbey Books that operated in Paisley for about 25 years in Johnston St, Gordon St and, for a short while, in Wellmeadow St., the answer is Yes but the owner is new.
Miniature Books
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The Miniature Classics Library Del Prado, 2003 £3 each.
Spookily, the display looks bigger |
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Windows Phone App
If you have a Windows Phone why not search for the Abbey Books app. It's in the Gaelic too!
Amazon
Whether you like it or not we do sell on Amazon. Most books are displayed in the shop first but are moved to Amazon after a while but only if they are worth about £5 or more. We have about 1000 books listed.
Postcards
We sell a few old postcards in the shop - we classify them as either pre-written or unused. It is hit and miss which ones are on display at any time.
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We also have a few new postcards, produced by one of our customers. They include four of the old Renfrew Airport which closed in 1966. The cards sell at £1 each, or 4 for £3. |
two bea viscounts on a winter's day in 1960.
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Book Tokens
If you want to give a present of money but don't want the poor soul to buy what they want, why not give them an Abbey Books book token? They're nice! DJ made them!
Writing
Oak Tree Arts run a junior writers' club in the shop on Saturday mornings. Follow this link for more details.
Special Books
The Books page has a wee few special but secondhand items.
New Books
For some reason we stock a few brand new books - some Cheap and some Not Cheap. The Not Cheap tend to be of local interest. The New Books page gives more details but here is a flavour:
A few football booklets edited by Stewart Davidson:
Scottish Non_League Review of 2011/2012 (£3)
Renfrew Football Club 1943-44: A Wartime Season Remembered (£2)
A Scottish Football Review of 1877/78 (£2)
The Renfrewshire F.A. Cup: First Fifty Years (£2.25)
Victorian Scottish Football Miscellany (£2.20)
Renfrewshire: A Scottish County's Hidden Past, Derek Alexander & Gordon McCrae, (ISBN 978-1-84158-799-8) £12.50
Three books by local historian George Prentice:
The Stories Behind Some Paisley memorials (£7.50)
Bombs Over Paisley: The Woodside First Aid Post Disaster (£6)
Paisley's World War Two and Roll of Honour (£8)
Downfall: The Tommy Sheridan Story, Alan McCombes, Birlinn, 2010. Signed by the author.
Scots Baronial: Mansions & Castle Restorations in the West of Scotland, Michael C. Davis, Spindrift Publishing, 1996
An Old Song and Edifying Letters of the Rutherford Family, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1982, Archon Books (ISBN 0-208-01973-1) and Wilfion Books (ISBN 0-905075-12-9).
Kilmacolm: A History David Roe.
Renfrewshire Local History Forum publications.
Barrhead books:
Barrhead: A History in Pictures, Alice F. Grieve 2008
The Annals of Barrhead, Robert Murray (2007 reprint)
Mine Ain Grey Toon, James McWhirter (1970)
Gaelic books for learners and luchd-fileanta.
Local books on Greenock, Gourock, Helensburgh, Kilmacolm and West Kilbride published by Grian Press.
Titles by Grimsay Press including most of their Paisley Collection.
The Peter's Railway series by Christopher Vine.
Books by John & Noreen Steele on HMS Dasher, Wee Cumbrae and Horse Island.
Jobs For The Boys: The Story of a Family in Britain's Imperial Heyday, Hew Stevenson, Dove Books, 2009 ISBN 978-1-902563-02-2 (£27)
A DVD: The Legacy of the Glen Cinema (£7.50)
On Hogmanay 1929 a fire in the Glen Cinema in Paisley killed 71 children. The short film “Legacy of the Glen Cinema” contains unseen footage from the 75th Anniversary Exhibition and lantern procession and interviews with the survivors of the tragedy.
Small Print
Free WiFi.
On a good day, you might get the offer of a free cup of coffee. We would sell it if people would pay!
Opening hours: Mon - Sat 10:15am - 5:15pm
We don't take holidays apart from Christmas Day & Boxing Day and New Year's Day and 2nd Jan.
Address: 2 Well St., Paisley, PA1 2SP
Tel: 0141 887 7303
Email: info@abbeybookspaisley.co.uk
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The proprietor is George Bell. A nice wee Swiss girl wanted to see his photo. Thanks to Mr Ian Angus for providing one. It must have been a happy day. |
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A bheil thu airson faighinn a-mach ma bhios a' Ghàidhlig aig Seòras coir? Uill, bi. Ach chan eil aon fhacal aig a' chorr.
