About us

Our bookroom is open Monday to Saturday. The main town car park is a 150m walk away and we have a couple of car parking spaces at the The Nursery.

Established over 30 years ago, we are a family business specialising in books on all aspects of natural history, gardening, botany and beekeeping.

We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the senior trade body for dealers in antiquarian and rare books.

We offer a very wide range of books from field guides to academic tomes and on to finely illustrated and antiquarian books.

We have a thriving and loyal customer base for our catalogues, postal sales and website. Catalogues are available free-of-charge either as a good old-fashioned book catalogue or as an attachment to an email.

Buying

We are always interested in purchasing large or small collections in our specialist subject areas.  We are quite happy to view collections here in Hay-on-Wye and can travel to view.

C. Arden (Bookseller)
Darren Bloodworth
The Nursery
Forest Road
Hay on Wye UK
HR3 5DT

Tel: 44 (0)1497 820 471

Opening hours:

- Mon. to Fri. 9.30am to 5.00pm
- Sat 9.30am to noon