Attic Books
240 Dundas Street N6A 1H3 London, ON, Canada

Book Favourites and Recommendations from Book Clerk Sheri The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith $11.00 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle $7.50 The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger $11.00... The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingslover $8.50 The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje $11.00 In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje $7.95 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt $10.00 The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert $10.00 Roses are Difficult Here by W.O. Mitchell $20.00 (signed) Reminder that discount basement is 50% off and the rest of the store is 20% off (includes these great reads) until March 27th. Happy Fusion Sale! #staffrecommends #bookrecommendations #booklove #bookstack #bookpile #fiction #nonfiction #greatbooks #goodreads #bibliophile #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #literature #books #novel #bookworm #bookish #booksbooksbooks #biblio #goodreads #readersofig #booknerd

We’ll be open on Tuesday, Feb 16th for in-store browsing again! And that means it is sale time! This year we’ve combined our two annual sales to bring you the 2021 BOXING WEEK AND MID-WINTER FUSION SALE. 50% off the sale basement and 20% off the rest of the store! From February 16th to March 27th. Get an additional 50% off all discounted items in our Sale Basement.... It is truly a bibliophile's favourite time of year: time for the now annual Basement Sale! You can get 50% off all items already discounted. It is almost too good to be real, right? 50% off items already 50% or more off is a crazy great deal so it is usually a good idea to get in earlier than later while the selection is larger. You can use store credit again this year and still receive the additional 50% off. Everything else in the store is 20% off as well. Been eyeing something on the main floor or want to treat yourself to some of our newer arrivals? That means off all our books, maps, prints, antiques and curiosities! Even our online stock (when purchased in store)! Taxes are included as always. Yes, it really does keep getting better. Not applicable to any of our Care Packages (Book, Snail Mail or Children’s) or orders made directly through our website. #ldnont #lndont #shop519 #springsale #basementsale

Deadline for Valentine’s Book Lover Care Packages is tomorrow at noon. Send your loved one a book paper rose or treat yourself to a Love Note from a Book Clerk. Easy ordering at www.atticbooks.ca . . .... (Limited quantity of roses left so may be substituted with a book themed magnetic bookmark from @craftedvan unless you note you are okay with it arriving after Valentine’s). #valentines #bookrose #bookgift #ldnont #lndont #dundasplace #londonontario #shop519 #shopsmallbusiness See more

Book Favourites from Book Clerk Mateus Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald $7.50 John Steinbeck: Nature & Myth $10.00 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad $3.50... Jazz by Toni Morrison $5.00 Writing Degree Zero by Roland Barthes 46.50 The Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami $8.00 Force of Circumstance by Simone de Beauvoir $3.50 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman $3.50 On Man and Nature by Thoreau $10.00 The Diary of Frida Kahlo by Alas Rotas $20.00 Akira by Katsuhiro Otoma $12.50 #staffrecommends #bookrecommendations #booklove #bookstack #bookpile #fiction #nonfiction #greatbooks #goodreads #bibliophile #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #literature #books #novel #bookworm #bookish #booksbooksbooks #biblio #goodreads #readersofig #booknerd #booksandshares

Need books for some holiday reading? We have some children’s picture books. Also lots of Hallmark movie styled Holiday Romances and Mysteries.

Selection of New Arrivals of Some really fantastic books. Comment if you’d like these or anything similar. Store open Mon-Sat 10 to 5. Karl Marx; An Illustrated History by Werner Blumenberg - $10 Packing My Library by Alberto Manguel - $10... Where the Bodies Were Buried by T.J. English - $10 The Burning Girl by Claire Messud - $7.50 Agatha Christie; A Life in Theatre by Julius Green - $20 Scotty; A Hockey Life Like No Other by Ken Dreyden - $10 Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen - $15 A Furious Sky by Eric Jay Dolin - $10 Born to be Posthumous; The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery - $20 The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin - $10 Blood and Sand by Alex Von Tunzelmann- $15 Iceman by Brenda Fowler - $10 Undercover Cop by Mike Russell - $10 Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard - $7.50 The Lonely City by Olivia Lang - $10 ___ #newarrivals #booklove #bookstack #bookpile #fiction #nonfiction #greatbooks #goodreads #bibliophile #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #literature #books #novel #bookworm #bookish #booksbooksbooks #biblio #goodreads #readersofig #booknerd #booksandshares

This year, more than even the crazy construction season of last year, we are so very thankful for our awesome customers. Thank you for supporting small. Thank you for supporting local and most of all thank you for being there for us and the whole Attic Books team. #smallbusiness #smallbusinesssaturday #dundasplace #atticbooks #booklove

If you have seen our new arrival carts, you know we have recently been putting out a large sci-fi and horror collection. Here is a peek at some of the Asimov titles that just came in, both fiction and non-fiction. Fun factoid: Asimov was so prolific that his books span all major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification except for category 100, philosophy and psychology. Yay! #booklore Comment if you’d like these or anything similar. Store open Mon-Sat 10 to 5. Free #l...dnont delivery for orders $25+ ($5 fee below). Curbside pickup is always available. Fiction: Pebble in the Sky - $30.00 The Caves of Steel (First Edition) - $50.00 Robot Visions (First Edition) - $50.00 The Stars Like Dust - $30.00 The Currents of Space - $20.00 Fantastic Voyage - $20.00 The End of Eternity - $30.00 Puzzles of the Black Widowers (First Edition) - $30.00 Asimov’s Mysteries - $10.00 The Union Club Mysteries - $20.00 Non-fiction: The Land of Canaan - $25.00 Extraterrestrial Civilizations - $10.00 The Birth of the United States 1763-1816 - $25.00 The Left Hand of the Electron (First Edition) - $30.00 The Tyrannosaurus Prescription - $25.00 The Egyptians - $25.00 The Greeks - $25.00 Asimov on Astronomy $10.00 Exploring the Earth & the Cosmos - $15.00 We have been calling people who have had want requests with us in the past as this collection is being processed and priced. If there is a title you are looking for, feel free to slide into our DMs with your request. #newarrivals #booklove #bookstack #bookpile #greatbooks #goodreads #bibliophile #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #biblio #readersofig #booknerd #scifi #fantasy #science #asimov #isaacasimov

Join us for the launch of London Free Press From the Vault: Volume II 1950-1975. It will be an open house, spread across two days so that there is plenty of space for people to meet and greet with Jennifer Grainger, the principal author. It will be very casual so feel free to wander by on either day from 1-4 pm. Come and get your copy signed and inscribed and if it is a gift the front staff will be happy to wrap it up for you. ... If you cannot attend but still want a copy, you can order it online at https://www.atticbooks.ca or call us at 519-432-7277. We offer free local London delivery (orders $25+) and curb side pick up as well as in store browsing. Missed getting a copy of Volume One? We have some in stock too. COVID protocols will be followed so a mask or face shield will be required for entry into the store and sadly there will not be refreshments provided at this events.

It is here! London Free Press: From the Vault: A Photo-History of London. Volume II 1950-1975 By Jennifer Grainger $44.95... Photos capture #London, #Ontario architecture, business, industry, culture, politics, sports, and University of Western Ontario, as well as London's expanding surburbia, local haunts, rock 'n' roll, Storybook Gardens, and celebrations for Canada's Centennial. Forewords by London Free Press Editor-in-Chief Joe Ruscitti and Western University Archivist Robin Keirstead. Save the Date for November 20-21 for a book launch. Event details coming soon. SPECIAL UNTIL JANUARY: Taxes included and free local #ldnont home delivery as well as an option to have it signed and/or inscribed when ordered from our website. https://atticbooks.ca/products/from-the-vault-volume-ii Missed the first volume? Check out our 2-volume set deal at https://atticbooks.ca//products/2-volume-set-from-the-vault #localhistory #canadianhistory #midlessexcounty #middlesex #canadiana #biblioasis #londonfreepress #giftideas #booklove

Thank you to all who have ordered copies of the latest #ldnont history book already! We still have lots more for those who inquired. And remember to save the date for Nov 20-21 for the book launch. Event details coming soon. :) For more info about London Free Press: From the Vault Volume II, check out https://atticbooks.ca/

PLEASE WEAR A MASK, COVERING BOTH YOUR NOSE AND MOUTH WHILE IN OUR STORE. We understand there are exceptions but we kindly ask you to wear a face shield or use our alternative options of curb side pick up or local delivery. Due to the safety of some of our immune compromised staff and families as well as some of our customers, we will not allow you to shop in the store without a mask/face shield. Thank you for thinking of others and their safety. Please do not take your frus...tration for this decision out on our staff (or any retail staff really). They are as stressed and frustrated as you by the global pandemic and the measures we are all taking and wear a mask for hours at a time to serve you. Being yelled at, cursed at and made to feel as if it is their fault is more than anyone should have to deal with. And if you are wondering how people could possibly be cruel and thoughtless in a time when we should have each other’s backs, yes it does happen, several times a day even in a place as wonderful as a bookstore. We are so thankful for our amazing customers who are so wonderful and luckily they far out weigh the bad. So keep smiling behind those masks and know we are smiling back. See more

Selection of New Franklin Arrivals. Comment if you’d like these or anything similar. Store open Mon-Sat 10 to 5. Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen - $25 Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence - $25... The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James - $20 Nana by Emile Zola - $20 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - $25 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton $30 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe - $35 Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne - $25 Nine Tales by Henry James - $30 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - $30 The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire - $25 The Prince by Machiavelli - $60 #newarrivals #booklove #bookstack #bookpile #greatbooks #goodreads #bibliophile #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #biblio #readersofig #booknerd #reproduction #reprints #franklin #literature #classics #100greatestbooksofalltime

Some Classic Who paperbacks... because who doesn’t love The Doctor

The TABF is definitely a highlight of the year for us because we get to interact with our customers and share our book culture love with our colleagues but we hope everyone is doing well and is safe. Be sure to follow the TABF for updates and highlights of your favourite Canadian antiquarian booksellers.

Selection of New Medical History Arrivals. Comment if you’d like these or anything similar. Store open Mon-Sat 10 to 5. Abdominal Operations by Sir Berkeley Moynihan 4th ed. 2 volumes. 1926 $20.00 Living Anatomy: A Photographic Atlas of Muscles in Action and Surface Contours by R.D. Lockhart 5th ed. $25.00... Diseases of Nervous System by Sir Francis Walshe 9th ed. $10.00 Classics of Medicine Library Editions: Experimental Medicine by Claude Bernard $35.00 A Treatise on the Scurvy by James Lind $40.00 The Natural History of the Human Teeth by John Hunter $35.00 The Anatomy of the Human Brain and Nerves by Thomas Willis $50.00 ___ #newarrivals #booklove #bookstack #bookpile #greatbooks #goodreads #bibliophile #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #biblio #readersofig #booknerd #medicalhistory #medicalbooks #medicine #anatomy #diseases #antiquarian #reproduction

Happy birthday to one of our favourite authors, Ronald Dahl. Born Sept 13, 1916. Which of his many iconic books are one of your childhood favourites? We are partial to Matilda.

Selection of New Fiction Arrivals. Comment if you’d like these or anything similar. Store open Mon-Sat 10 to 5. FICTION: The Glass Room by Simon Mawer $10.00... The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin $7.50 Michigan vs. The Boys by Carrie S. Allen $7.50 King of King Court by Travis Dandro $14.95 Company Town by Madeline Ashby $7.50 Every Note Played by Lisa Genova $8.00 The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell $10.50 The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson $7.50 Circus by Claire Battershill $11.00 Just One Bite by Jack Heath $7.50 The History of Bees by Maja Lunde $12.50 The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert $7.50 The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton $8.50 Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverin $9.50 The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders $7.50 Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase $7.50 The October Country by Ray Bradbury $4.00 Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov $4.00 ___ #newarrivals #booklove #bookstack #bookpile #fiction #greatbooks #goodreads #bibliophile #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #literature #books #novel #bookworm #bookish #booksbooksbooks #biblio #goodreads #readersofig #booknerd #booksandshares See more

What do you think of the new sign?

We love a good classic cookbook. What is your staple go to cookbook? Maybe a treasured copy of The Joy of Cooking or a collection of slips of jotted down recipes passed down through the family? Pictured here is a facsimile edition of the timeless (and not so timeless) Betty Crocker’s Picture Cookbook originally published in 1950. #cooking #recipes #cookbooks #familyrecipes #collectiblecookbooks

We’re open Monday but only from 1 to 5. Weekend hours are Sat 10 to 5 and closed Sunday. #happyreading

Selection of New Arrivals of Some really fantastic Non-Fiction. Comment if you’d like these or anything similar. Store open Mon-Sat 10 to 5. The Five by Hallie Rubenhold $10.00 Empire of Sin by Gary Krist $10.00... Raoul Wallenberg by Ingrid Carlberg $10.00 Birdmen by Lawrence Goldstone $10.00 All the Way by Jordin Tootoo $10.00 Cujo by Curtis Joseph $10.00 A Lab of One’s Own by Patricia Fara $15.00 This Book is Overdue by Marilyn Johnson $10.00 Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho trans. Willis Barnstone $10.00 In Other Words by Anna Porter $10.00 Better with Age by Alan D. Castel $10.00 Hungover by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall $10.00 The Incendiary by Jessica Warner $10.00 Aloha Rodeo by David Wolman and Julian Smith $10.00 Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World by Philip de Souza $25.00 The Cowboy Legend by John Jennings $30.00 The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder $10.00 Ice Ghosts by Paul Watson $15.00 I Can’t Make This Up by Kevin Hart $10.00 All Blood Runs Red by Phil Keith $10.00 The Ingenious Mr. Pyke by Henry Hemming $10.00 Where Once They Stood by Raymond B. Blake $13.95 Three Weeks in Quebec City by Christopher Moore $15.00 Argo by Antonio Mendez $10.00 Still Foolin Em by Billy Crystal $10.00 ___ #newarrivals #booklove #bookstack #bookpile #fiction #nonfiction #greatbooks #goodreads #bibliophile #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #literature #books #novel #bookworm #bookish #booksbooksbooks #biblio #goodreads #readersofig #booknerd #booksandshares See more

You asked so we brought them back. Bookstore activities! Whether you are a solo browser, hanging with your book club or your bookish beau/belle we hope you enjoy.

Independent Bookstore Day! Aug 29th, 2020 Come down and celebrate books with us! We are doing a giveaway of $100.00 Core Area Construction Dollars (Thanks @downtownlondon) for you to spend at any participating Downtown or OEV business (esp. the bookstores ) as well as for a couple of Book Lover Care Packages. No purchases needed for an entry ballot but you can earn an extra ballot (and a 10% off your days purchase) by answering a literary trivia question. We are always down ...with gabbing with you about the best (or worst) books we’ve read lately and love learning what you thing is the next best read! Can’t come downtown tomorrow but want to have a chance at a sweet sweet prize? No worries we’ll be holding a social media contest in later in September so keep an eye out for that. . . #indiebookday #independentbookstoreday #bookstore #bookshop #ldnont #downtownlondonontario