Our stock is divided into twenty subject categories, running alphabetically from Animal Books through to Economics. The divisions are practical rather than academic: they reflect how customers actually ask for books in the shop, and how our own shelves are physically laid out.

Some categories, such as Climbing, Canadian History, and Canadian Literature, are unusually deep for a store of our size, simply because of where we are. Others, such as Computer Books or Automotive, skew older by nature and are strongest in reference material that is no longer available new.

Each category page below describes what that section typically holds, how condition and edition tend to vary within it, and what kind of reader gets the most out of browsing it.

New stock is sorted into these categories as soon as it arrives, and larger single-owner collections are often what push a particular section noticeably deeper for a few weeks at a time, so a shelf that looked thin last month may well be worth a second look today.

Twenty categories, covering the full range of our used, out-of-print, and rare inventory:

If you already know what you are after, the search box at the top of every page will search our entire inventory by author, title, description, or keyword, which is usually faster than working through a category by hand.

Because our stock is made up largely of single, one-off copies, a title can sell between the moment a listing is created and the moment an order is placed. If that happens we will contact you immediately with the option of a refund or a substitute copy where one exists.

And if a title is not listed at all, the Offline Search Service is the next step. We will search our own shelves along with other bookstores and book-search services, and report back with what we find, including condition and price, before any payment is taken.

Whichever route you take, feel free to combine them. Many regulars search the catalogue first, browse the matching category page for anything similar they might not have thought to search for, and then send an Offline Search Service request for whatever is still missing.