The flagship store can be found in the ifc mall on harbour view street. They operate on an environmentally friendly principle, and will personally come to pick up any books you want to sell. The best thing about visiting a secondhand bookshop is the pleasure of unexpectedly stumbling across a good book. Buy and sell cheap used and new items online in our marketplace for hong kong at secondhand. Central, online shop if your lord of the rings trilogy is collecting dust and youre looking for more updated reads, trade them into books mart hk in sai ying pun, a shop tucked away on the upper floor of an office.
Treitel the law of contract th edition, edwin peel. Mar 19, 2020 hong kong second hand bookshop owner surdham lam wants to create a lending library that lets borrowers keep the books as long as they like. Established in 2002 and located in the artsy neighborhood of sai ying pun, hau yau sells old and secondhand books in chinese, ranging from textbooks, novels, and art books to nonfiction, as well as cds. Here are three places that ive frequented here in hong kong, offering cheap but amazing books. My name is heather, and i am posting this question because i was looking for bookstores and secondhand book stores in hong kong that are. We have over 3 million books available for you to buy online, in thousands of categories and deliver to both hong kong and macau. Welcome to the largest online bookstore in hong kong. A hong kong bookshop becomes a library without limits.
If secondhand books are your thing, then enjoy the great selection youll find nestling alongside new prints at flow. The best secondhand bookshops in hong kong culture trip. Feb 10, 2019 trying to remain on the cutting edge of trends, hong kong just added a 24hour bookshop, called eslite bookstore, in the recently opened hysan place shopping mall in causeway bay. The mama of all secondhand sites in hong kong is asiaexpat. The sassy mama guide to secondhand shopping in hong kong. We collect second hand books from families, providing a convenient service that encourages the reusing of books. With enough patience, you can find anything and everything here, however the sheer volume of listings can make this a little unwieldy to search.
If i cant id love to buy some second hand books or cheap new ones. Search around the selves packed with lonely planet volumes to get inspiration for your next adventure out of hong kong. Albeit rather cramped inside the store, there are extensive secondhand volumes for you to choose from, including fiction, comics, reference books, and tomes about films. Specialises in providing book binding and book restoration services to local and international book lovers. Tucked away on a steep sai ying pun slope sits an unassuming bookstore cafe thats filled with stacks of secondhand books. Flow bookshop a book store on a mission to extend the lifespans of books. Booksmart is a small bookstore in hong kong selling quality, inexpensive, new and used english books. They operate on an environmentally friendly principle, and will personally come to pick up any books. Hong kong bookshops pull politically sensitive titles after. The largest 2 nd hand furniture store in hong kong, 2 nd chances massive warehouse in tuen mun features pieces from indigo, tree, and tequila kola at reduced price tags, and other beautiful pieces for the home, office, and garden. The second floor is dedicated to kids stuff and academic textbooks, but theres also a sizeable section dedicated to hong kongrelated history downstairs. Land law in hong kong 4th edition, sh goo and alice lee 12. The book that keep up givingsecondhand book hong kong. Apr 29, 2014 overflowing second hand bookshop with a wide selection of english and chinese books.
Jul 28, 2018 now, when compared to london, hong kong does not have much to offer in the way of secondhand or used books. It was one of about 110 independent hong kong bookshops that rent out space in upstairs locations to avoid high rents at street level. Image bao pu, the founder and publisher of new century press, at a book warehouse in hong kong. From secondhand books and graphic novels to the latest english and french releases, these are the best hong kong bookstores.
Their furnishings are used as a backdrop or prop for many movies as well. Secondhand bookshop to reopen as social enterprise after. Learn more about bluray region specifications here. Oct 28, 2017 for now, albert is running his store online, as well as selling secondhand books at popup shops and weekend markets all over hong kong. Find preloved literature and absolute steals at one of these top secondhand book stores in hong kong. Causeway bay books, located in causeway bay, hong kong, was founded in 1994 by lam wingkee. Jan 17, 2020 11 places to donate clothes, books and food in hong kong. There is a second hand bookstore in stanley market called the chapter house at shop a, 10 stanley main st. It just takes 15minutes from booksmart to flow bookstore by walk. We collect secondhand books from families, providing a convenient service that encourages the reusing of books. Lets feel it through the recirculation of used books, music and movie. We charge by the weight of the order and not by the number of books. It came into being two years ago when jennifer li traded a jetsetting life in the corporate world for the much quieter existence of a book lover. Oxfam also runs second hand shops for books, clothing, home and fashion accessories, one in central lg8, jardine house, 1 connaught place and one in causeway bay shop 33, 11f windsor house, 311 gloucester road.
Tort law in hong kong 3rd edition, rick glofcheski 9. Bookazine with six branches spread across hong kong, bookazine is an english bookstore chain that supports and champions local authors and writers. There are nine dymocks stores in the hong kong region. Secondhand bookshop to reopen as social enterprise after donors. Now in its 20th year, this is the place to come to find the unexpected. Apr 03, 2018 hong kongs publishing houses became an extension of the political battlefield in beijing. Does anyone know if there are any second hand book shops in hong kong, preferably in english.
Where to buy secondhand books in hong kong localiiz. Intrigued by the idea of anyone wanting to set up an english bookselling business in our largely commerce over culture city, i reached out to albert and asked if i could interview him for my litera. Jan 07, 2016 a bookshop at hong kong airport stocked with dozens of salacious tomes about chinas top leaders. The cozy corner, combining books and a cafe is dominated by secondhand travel books with a few other additions. Established in 2002 and located in the artsy neighborhood of sai ying pun, hau yau sells old and second hand books in chinese, ranging from textbooks, novels, and art books to nonfiction, as well as cds. We then sell these books on our online bookstore at very discounted prices. The best hong kong bookstores for all you book lovers. Of particular note are the kids, the home furnishings and the clothing sections. This interesting concept has worked well in taiwan so perhaps it will do fine here in hong kong. This will not play on most bluray players sold in north america, central america, south america, japan, north korea, south korea, taiwan, hong kong and southeast asia. Some of the first actions in the 1970s and 80s were to advocate for justice in the vietnamese boat peoplerefugee crisis in hong kong, and to help save lives in ethiopia during the 1984 famine. Oxfam hong kong began in 1976, when volunteers came together, opened a second hand shop, and raised funds for antipoverty projects around the world.
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