Didsbury Village Bookshop

posabley the fullist shop you will ever go into! but lots of lovely old books to look at iw realy nice to go into a shop as uncommercial as this a real step back in time

Although the front part of this former record shop is now the Art of Tea, the Didsbury Village Bookshop still remains in the back room! It’s a great little shop that’s crowded with endless rows of bookcases, each holding a huge variety of secondhand and collectable titles, including lots of coveted vintage Penguin paperbacks!
For some reason, the shop also does a great line in books about classic Hollywood icons. I’ve picked up everything from straightforward biographies of Clara Bow and Jean Harlow to a slightly odd biography of Jayne Mansfield written by her psychic here!
The prices aren’t cheap at around £2 6 per book. But there really are some great one-​off titles here that you’d struggle to find elsewhere. The man who works here is very chatty and will happily recommend titles to you. His mind seems to function like a human stock control system, too. So he can usually tell you whether or not there’s a particular book in stock, saving you hours of rifling through the shelves!

Fantastic second hand book store at the back of the Art of Tea. Literally crammed floor to ceiling with books of all descriptions and in the type of environment perfect for rummaging through old books, especially when you have a couple of hours spare.
This shop is situated directly behind the Art of Tea as part of a four piece (alongside zero and the Picture framing service) avant garde nod to commercial shopping.
The perfect one stop shop for your creative needs and caffeine addled brains. Have a good rummage through the countless number of books (thankfully listed by style and subject matter) then pop next door to grab a brew and purvey your literary acquisition.
I found a bargain on a Stanley Kubrick hardback perfect condition and sold for a very good price considering it’s quality.
This part of Didsbury Village is slowly but surely re emerging from years in the wilderness and this type of book shop is exactly the type of thing Didsbury currently needs.