Shipley, specialist art booksellers has been established as a bookshop on the CHARING CROSS ROAD for many years, moving from Covent Garden after over a decade of successful trading.

The premises at 70 CHARING CROSS ROAD was built as a bookshop more than 100 years ago and is at the center of the worlds best known bookselling street, surrounded by other specialist and general bookshops. Viewers of the film, 84 Charing Cross Road, could be forgiven a sense of deja vu as the set designers for the film took copious notes and Polaroid's of the bookshop during the preparation for designing the set.

Shipleys have always specialized in art, uniquely combining both new and old or rare books, including exhibition catalogues, and some of the rarer artists' books.

Shipleys stock more than 20,000 titles on the subjects of Art and Architecture, Fashion and Photography; Graphic Design and Illustration. Shipleys have a considerable reputation for stocking and finding the more elusive titles.

Shipleys offer a search service for out of print desiderata. If you can't find the book you want searching our catalogues why not let us know. As soon as we find what you are looking for we will quote a price to you.

The skilled and knowledgeable staff are all graduates and come from either a practical fine art or academic literature background.

Over the years Shipleys have built up a library of bibliographic reference books and through new technology have access to British and American Books in Print as well as to the British Library, the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library.

Shipleys regularly issue a range of catalogues. As well as a major monthly catalogue, there are smaller, more specialized listings. For example Art and AIDS, Celtic Art and Design, Books on Derek Jarman, Art Architecture and War, as well as our regular listing of Important Exhibition Catalogues and Graphic Design lists.

The shop opening hours are 10.00 am to 6.00 pm. Monday through Saturday. The fax is on all the time, and when there is nobody at hand, the answering machine will take messages, and of course you can contact us by E mail.

Standing Orders are available for regular publications, series and catalogues from specific venues.

Shipleys have always been at the cutting edge of technology. We were one of the first bookshops to take advantage of computers, and have maintained this advantage. We are the Beta test for a company specializing in software for the publishing and retail trades and we were one of the first bookshops to be on the Internet (www.shipley.co.uk)

Shipley pride themselves with counting amongst their clients the major academic and professional libraries, private institutions, universities and art dealers. A significant number of clientele are artists, art professionals and academics.