Windrush Books

04/18/2016

Thanks to all our "friends" & likers - you have been much appreciated - but we sadly have to announce that after 33 years, Windrush Books is now closed, & our stock has been sold on to a fellow bookseller. However, who knows what the future may bring? - Maybe, some time, a new reincarnation! All the very best,
Isabel Sloane [Before & after photos herewith]

11/23/2014

Books recently put online include "Forty-Seven Love Poems" by Anna Akhmatova, 1927, Ernest Benn,"Several Treaties of Peace & Commerce" of Charles II & James II, London, 1686 & The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow bound in polished tree calf, 1903.. For more, go to our ABEbooks Homepage at www.mariab.org/pages/windrush

10/24/2013

Books on the occult for Halloween & beyond!

08/17/2013

Fabulous pictures of these gorgeous schooners ! We'll be there at Maritime Gloucester with our old nautical & Cape Ann books on Sat. August 31st & are very pleased to be a small part of this event.

The following schooners will be participating at the 2013 Gloucester Schooner Festival. Additional entries are welcome and can be facilitated by contacting Maritime Gloucester. Click here for Mayor’s Race Notice of Race & Registration. Scroll over an image for the vessel name and click on the image…

08/13/2013

Saturday August 31 - Windrush Books will be there as usual with nautical & local history books !

Visit Maritime Gloucester on the historic working waterfront of Gloucester, MA. Spend a day with us; sailing with Harold Burnham on the Schooner Ardelle, tour the museum and shop where you will learn about the Stellwagen Bank National Maritime Sanctuary and Gloucester’s ocean going heritage. Visit b...

08/11/2013

On Aug. 31st 2013, the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, Windrush Books will be at Maritime Gloucester's Schooner Festival - in the tent on the dock, as usual - selling nautical & Cape Ann history books. Starting earlier this year - 9 a.m. See Maritime Gloucester's website for details of the day. Lots going on! Looking forward to seeing you there.

04/27/2013

This is wonderful - one of the best things I've heard in a long time - & what a story! -

One afternoon in March, I walked through Timbuktu’s Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Studies and Islamic Research, stepp

03/20/2013

Barters Bookstore, Alnwick, Northumberland

03/14/2013

by Dick Hill, 1993. Very good condition, $30.

02/07/2013

English Love Poems, & other books