About Toby

Toby started selling books while a student to fund his book-buying. He was a full-time bookseller for 35 years and his wife Chris joined him as cataloguer and partner in the business over 20 years ago. Toby owned a very popular bookshop and was a regular at PBFA bookfairs and the manager for some years of the Oxford Fine Press Bookfair. Toby died in July 2015, only two months after closing the shop - he is pictured during the unpacking of boxes in the office.
From his son Ed's tribute at the funeral:
He was a true bookseller through and through, not the grumpy Bernard Black kind, but the one with a boyish excitement over every kind of odd book or quirky paraphernalia. Bookselling was where he was in his element, a characterful shopkeeper, with a sandwich or cake in hand.. He definitely said what he thought to customers in the shop, I’m not sure he would pass most modern customer service tests, but watching him at fairs was a delight, to see him bounce around the walls with bookish excitement..

Office

Open erratically, and for drop-off or collection only, by appointment.

Selling

On the internet since 1998, now selling via Biblio.com. and Abebooks.  Some books, MSS and non-book items listed on ebay