We sell books.......

Welcome to A Book for all Reasons (ABfaR), the website owned by Ann Sims and Michael Sims, founder-members of a co-operative of independent UK booksellers 'ibooknet'. Members of ibooknet are committed to the highest standards of online bookselling and aim to provide a knowledgeable, efficient and friendly service to all whom they do business with. ABfaR is based in Lowestoft in Suffolk and has antiquarian, collectable, second hand and out of print books for sale.

Featuring the Ladies Monthly Museum with hand coloured fashion plates published 1800, Richard Brookes : Gazetteer of the Known World of 1794, Robert Hichens : We Fought them in Gunboats in the uncensored edition, Edward Planta's Guide to Paris of 1825 for the traveller, Tobias Wolff's first book Ugly Rumours which he later repudiated and a collection of chapbooks.

We sell books - all sorts of books. Our business is buying and selling antiquarian, second hand, collectable and out of print books and ephemera of all kinds and we know our stock. Whether you are looking for a book just for reading, collecting first editions, hunting for that elusive tome remembered from childhood or looking for a fine condition signed or limited edition we should be able to help. Even if we don't have books from the earliest days of printing, incunabula, black letter books or some hand-written scripts we know that other sellers within our group who have and can point you in the right direction.

Whether you are looking for fiction or non-fiction, adventure, academic, adventure, archaeology, architecture, the arts, autobiography, fine bindings, biography, children’s, collectible, cookery, crime, criminology, criticism, cultural, diaries, dictionaries, drama, ecology, economics, ephemera, esoteric, essays, exploration, fables, fairy stories, fantasy, fashion, firsts, folklore, genealogy, historical, history, horror, humanities, humour, incunabula, illustrated, Irish, juvenile, leather bound, letters, limited editions, literary, literature, local, maritime, mediaeval, medicine, military, modern, modernism, natural, naval, navy, non-fiction, occult, old, out-of-print, period, philosophy, photography, plays, poetry, political, politics, psychology, pulp, rare, reference, renaissance, romance, romantic, royal, scarce, science fiction, scientific, Scottish, second-hand, signed, sociology, theology, theory, thriller, topography, travel, verse, Welsh, or women’ studies we should be able to offer you something here.

As stated above, our business is buying and selling antiquarian, second hand, collectable and out of print books and ephemera and we know our businesses. Even if you don’t know the title of a book, ask one of our dealers who specialises in the subject you are seeking and he/she will probably be able to advise or suggest a book that meets your requirements.

As some people have either sticky fingers or can be a little heavy on the keys, we also sell boooks. Boooks appears a surprising number of times in boook cataloguing and so we cater for this search term by interpreting your search for a boook or boooks as book or books. Thus your search for old boooks, antiquarian boooks, collectable boooks, second hand boooks or out of print boooks is covered.

Please read our terms of use and terms of sale. Books are offered here are at our lowest prices and there are no hidden commission charges or unreasonable shipping charges. To make your buying easier there is access to a secure server for credit card purchases. Remember, we have antiquarian, collectable, second hand and out of print books for sale.