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Welcome to the home of C L Hawley Books. We have been supplying out of print and hard-to-find books to academics, libraries, collectors and readers since 2000. We pride ourselves on our customer service, our knowledge of our specialist stock, and our well packaged and promptly posted parcels of books. Our aim is to provide a service where out-of-print academic material in our specialist areas can easily be found, as well as finding new homes for children's books and local history.
We offer no-obligation booksearches, and can record your areas of research to alert you when relevant stock comes in. We can quickly supply, by post or email, printed lists of stock sorted by your interests and are happy to give advice. Further details about any of our books or additional photographs are always available.
We are always looking to buy literary criticism, other academic books (including history, psychology, philosophy, linguistics and biblical languages), children's poetry and fiction, and local history books. Please contact us if you have books you wish to sell.
New Way to Pay
We can now accept American Express cards through the checkout or by telephone.
Newly in Stock...
A range of books by and about Mary Wollstonecraft.
A selection of feminist theory including works by Elaine Showalter.
We are in the process of cataloguing several hundred books on Yorkshire and Lancashire especially works of dialect poetry, and dialect dictionaries and etymologies
Our large selection of works by or about William Morris is getting larger as we now have many more items waiting to be listed. The works including essays, letters, biography, lectures, and editions of the William Morris Society journal going back 40 years. These are in the process of being catalogued and we're adding more each week so check back regularly or email us if you are looking for something specific.
A selection of books on Scotland, including books on Scottish politics, biography, history, literature and language, especially dual language English-Gaelic. Visit our book blog Juxtabook
We have a book blog called Juxtabook. It features books reviews and news, a wide selections of links to websites on books and authors which we hope will prove to be a useful bibliographic resource, as well as our thoughts on education, literacy, libraries and more. You can read and comment on all these matters at Juxtabook . You can also follow Juxtabook on Twitter. Catherine, and a number of other booksellers contribute to the blog Books4All which you might also enjoy.
Did you know?
As well as browsing our categories, other selections can be viewed as a group via the keywords Literature in Translation providing a selection of novels, poems, drama, literary criticism and other matter translated in to English; similarly the keywords Dual Language bring up a selection of en face or interlinear translations usefully combining the orignal text with the translation. The categories of such items will be their geographical literary category eg Russian Literature or African History and Literature but they can still be viewed together as a group using the keyword search.
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