Alice’s Bookshop
Fine, Rare & Secondhand Books
Bought & Sold
Photo: Kevin Rabalais
Alice’s Bookshop is a traditional, slow-bookshop, established in 1986.
For 30 years we have bought and sold books of merit.
Alice’s Bookshop is a general secondhand bookshop, with approximately 18,000 books housed in four rooms on the ground floor.
While we stock books on most subjects, there is a strong emphasis on literature, music, the arts, history, philosophy, psychology, gardening and children’s books. We also have a fine collection of first edition literature, signed, and antiquarian books.
Browsers, thinkers, readers, dreamers – all are welcome.
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks
And all the sweet serenity of books”
–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Photo: Kevin Rabalais
Come visit
Alice’s Bookshop
181 Bell Street,
Preston Melbourne,
Victoria 3072 Australia
Entry is via Newcastle Street (the shop is located inside a Kenards storage facility).
Phone: +61 (0)437 400 071
Email: books@alices.com.au
Opening Hours:
11am – 4pm Wednessday to Saturday
By Appointment call or text 0437 400 071
We are open most public holidays except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day
There is ample free parking (restrictions apply).
Visitors arriving by foot, by bicycle or by public transport are particularly treasured.
Sell or Donate Your Books
Buying
By appointment only. Please call or email us to see if we are buying, and, if so, what we are presently looking for.
We buy quality books across a wide range of areas. (See Our Story section above)
Donating
We accept most books, in readable condition, most of the time. Textbooks and computer books excluded.
“A cool of books
will sometimes lead the mind to libraries
of a hot afternoon, if books can be found
cool to the sense to lead the mind away.”
–William Carlos Williams
Photo: Kevin Rabalais
About the proprietors
Luke Terbutt and Selina Braine are the new owners of Alice’s Bookshop, having taken over from Ellen and Joshua Boyd Green since June 2015.
Luke has been a bookseller for over 20 years. He is considered, by many, to be both an advocate and example for the collecting and hoarding of books. Amid the digitisation of everyday life, he is a firm believer in the longevity of reading on the printed page.
Selina is an Artist, secondary school Art and Design Teacher, and bookseller. She is interested strongly in visual culture, cooking, and gardening. Her attention to detail and creative flair can be found in all the pretty nooks of Alice’s.
Colporteurs, chapmen, traffickers and fossickers they are proud to be assuming the mantle at Alice’s.
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