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Monday 10:30am - 5:30pm Tuesday 10:30am - 5:30pm Wednesday 10:30am - 5:30pm Thursday 10:30am - 5:30pm Friday 10:30am - 5:30pm Saturday 10:30am - 5:30pm Sunday 11am - 5pm

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Over 50 years of selling old & rare books from our c18th bookshop. Chiswick High Road's oldest shop.

The Foster family have been selling old, rare, and secondhand books in Chiswick for 50 years now. The original shop front with it's bay window, is the oldest on Chiswick High Road, and dates from the later 18th century.

21/10/2026

Come see us and some spooky books at the Chelsea Rare Book Fair at on Fri 30th and Saturday 31st October. Free tickets available in the shop, on our website or via the link in our bio 🎃🍁

15/10/2026

Now here’s an exciting thing! This is the first publication of Andre Breton’s seminal lecture on Surrealism in Brussels in 1934. Ten years after his first ‘Manifesto of Surrealism’ (1924) Breton sets out how the movement has changed over the years in response to rising Fascism in Europe, and declares that Surrealism can no longer be an “intellectual refuge” or isolated artistic exercise. He positions the movement as an actively politicised, anti-Fascist, Marxist enterprise.

A remarkable piece of 20th century art history and one of 30 copies on Hollander van Gelder paper, in a total original print run of 1070 copies with the Magritte illustrated cover.

We will be bringing this along to the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association Chelsea Rare Book Fair at the end of the month. As always, get a free ticket in the link in our bio.

13/10/2026

Gorgeous and strange illustrations by Harry Clarke for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

Harry Clarke was a key figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement, and his illustration work was influenced by the Art Deco, Art Nouveau and French Symbolist Movements.

11/10/2026

08/10/2026

Getting in the spirit of the season 🎃 with our most spine-tingling works of the supernatural, gothic horror and crime - the perfect books to reach for as the nights grow longer and the weather colder.

20/09/2026

We’re open at Bouncing Off the Wall! here at until 5pm. Tours of this designed school throughout the day

15/09/2026

Happy Birthday to the “Queen of Crime”, Dame Agatha Christie! The brilliant brain who devised our much beloved wizards of deduction, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

We always keep a number of her books in our stock, which currently includes a complete set of the Agatha Christie Crime Collection, with 72 of her best novels and short story collections up to 1971/1972.

14/09/2026

The first hints of autumn are creeping in to our window here at Foster’s with this 1936 copy of Cicely Mary Barker’s Book of the Flower Fairies, Edgar Allan Poe’s haunting gothic tales, and some seasonal nature writing🍁🍂

12/09/2026

09/09/2026

Autumn seems to have arrived in all it’s soggy splendour here in Chiswick with some much needed rain ☔️🌧️ This lovely Edward Ardizzone illustrated children’s book encapsulates our thoughts exactly…

Address

Foster Books, 183 Chiswick High Road
London
W42DR

Opening Hours

Monday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Sunday	11am - 5pm

Telephone

+442089952768

Website

http://www.fosterbooks.co.uk/

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