Halcyon Books

Halcyon Books is a family-run Secondhand Bookshop in south-east London, best known for bargain-priced paperbacks alongside shelves of Art Books, Architecture and design titles, plus a sprinkling of Rare Books and Antiquarian Books - halcyonbooks.co.uk

# Software

Digging around, it appears that the shop uses Monsoon for it's inventory management, which integrates with ABE adfs (and therefore Amazon Books to provide an online marketplace.

- monsooncommerce.com - abebooks.com

# Where it is

The shop is in Lee (Lewisham), at 266 Lee High Road, London SE13 5PL - halcyonbooks.co.uk

SEARCH 51.4585211, 0.0028491 Halcyon Books, 266, Lee High Road, Dacre Park Estate, Hither Green, London Borough of Lewisham, Greater London, England, SE13 5PL, United Kingdom

# What you’ll find Expect lots of secondhand stock, with sections that reward slow browsing rather than “in-and-out” shopping - theguardian.com

They also trade in things that tend to orbit book-people: postcards, records, prints, maps, vintage magazines, and ephemera - halcyonbooks.co.uk

# Coffee-and-browse vibe Halcyon is deliberately a linger-friendly place, mixing a bookshop with coffee, tea, and seating (and, historically, a small garden space mentioned in profiles of the shop) - theguardian.com

If your ideal bookshop visit includes “sit down, read a chapter, then buy three more than you planned”, this is that sort of spot - tripadvisor.co.uk

# Buying and selling They sell in-store and online, and they also buy books (single items or whole collections) - halcyonbooks.co.uk If you’re ordering online, treat it like any marketplace purchase: read the condition notes carefully and use the platform’s protection if anything arrives not-as-described - abebooks.co.uk

# A note on the old Greenwich shop Halcyon began as a Greenwich Market stall and at one point had two shops (Greenwich and Lewisham/Lee), but the Greenwich branch is generally reported as having closed at the end of October 2018, with the Lee shop continuing - londonbookshops.org