Secondhand bookshops

Gone West

Anyone know of any secondhand bookshops around the city centre?
D2 preferred, or D1

funktastic

Upstairs Chapters on Parnell St
Secret bookstore on Wicklow St
Trinity Students Union does second hand books (during term time only I think)
A few places in the Georges St arcade

r3nu4l

Haven't Chapters moved up around Parnell Square somewhere?

There was a thread in the literature forum about this. Charity stores can be quite good too for fiction, not so much for academic titles.

EDIT/funktastic got there before me thanks to stupid database errors.

Brooklyn74

There's another place on Parnell Street near Capel Street, can't think of the name though.

The Winding Stair on the North Quays.

Hodges Figgis on Dawson Street doesn't do used, but has plenty of bargains on new books in its basement (and frequent sales).

Marathon Man

Oxfam books which is located between city hall and the quays can be quite useful.

Wishbone Ash

Brooklyn74 wrote:

The Winding Stair on the North Quays

That closed as a bookshop a long time ago - it's a restaurant now.

Marathon Man

Wishbone Ash wrote:

That closed as a bookshop a long time ago - it's a restaurant now.

I'm sure its both.

Wishbone Ash

Marathon Man wrote:

I'm sure its both.

It used to be a book shop and coffee shop type restaurant but the bookshop closed in April 2005. Now it's just a restaurant.

Marathon Man

Wishbone Ash wrote:

It used to be a book shop and coffee shop type restaurant but the bookshop closed in April 2005. Now it's just a restaurant.

Oh ok then. Its around that time that I last used the place so I must be wrong.

DublinWriter

You can't beat charity shops for secondhand bargains.

The two best areas are up at the top of Camden St. (about 6 grouped together plus one in the Carmalite Centre) and Phibsborough (4 around the s/c and another 4 just around the corner on the NCR towards the direction of the old church).

There's also 4/5 grouped together towards the Liffey end of Capel St.

Gone West

cheers all!
I will go on a massive book-buying expedition after work on Monday.

Oink

Wishbone Ash wrote:

It used to be a book shop and coffee shop type restaurant but the bookshop closed in April 2005. Now it's just a restaurant.

In January (or Feb?) I went to a small acoustic gig in the Winding Stairs (Jenny Lindfors, Ben Kritikos, et al. Most excellent), and while I was there I bought a couple of books. So yeah, very confusing.

lightening

The food is amazing in that place, really worth it.

Wishbone Ash

lightening wrote:

The food is amazing in that place, really worth it.

Yup - I remember posting about it in the restaurant thread in Food and Drink.

Back on Topic - has Green's completely closed yet?

BendiBus

There's one on Talbot St, opposite Independent Newspapers HQ. Does books & games. Never been inside and it looks small.

Gone West

Went to chapters, it was massive. Huge selection of secondhand books, but they are quite eqpensive compared to anywhere else.

Brooklyn74

I haven't been to Chapters since it moved, but I used to go to the Abbey Street store a lot. I found their prices ok. But then they also had by far the best selection of used books (speaking as someone who tends to read mostly non-fiction, especially politics and history).

dogmatix

Winding stairs re-opened it's bookshop a few months ago. Great place to browse but it's a lot smaller then it used to be.

There used to be loads of great second hand bookshops around but there are so few places left now - must be the celtic tiger effect. Green's closed recently, Duffy's was a great place to browse, but gone years ago.

Sawa

There is one on the Rathmines road, towards town end, near St. Mary's College.