Ken Spelman Booksellers (Peter Miller & Tony Fothergill) was established at 70 Micklegate in York in 1948. The site had been a bookshop at the beginning of the century and was formerly owned by Edwin Story. It now occupies all four floors of this elegant building; the ground and first floors containing our large stock of out of print books, high quality publisher's remainders, and gallery area displaying early English water-colours. There are also two rare book rooms, and at the top of the building a book bindery. In 2000 we purchased the adjacent property and have now re-united the building into the one bookshop it formed before the 1st World War

Peter Miller is a past President of The Antiquarian Booksellers Association.

We are active current members of:

The Antiquarian Booksellers Association
The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association
The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

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We currently hold over 40,000 books in stock and are a rare combination of high quality secondhand bookshop, and fine and antiquarian specialist. We stock good quality publishers remainders, particularly scholarly academic and art books.

We also deal in 18th and early 19th century English watercolours, and have regular exhibitions of these and modern watercolour artists. Please send your details to be included in our mailings for private openings of these exhibitions.

Our shop hours are 9.00am - 5.30pm
Monday - Saturday