Aviation Book Sellers

This page is intended to be a brief guide to obtaining aviation books from Internet bookshops. These days, both new and second-hand books can be purchased through reliable on-line bookshops in many countries of the world.

Ordering over the Internet is easy and safe. The best of these sites provide a massive range of books – including those hard-to-get titles – plus discount prices, secure ordering by credit card, e-mail confirmation of your order and e-mail notification of goods dispatch. Delivery can be within 3 working days for non-international orders, although a variety of delivery options are available.

If you have any comments on using on-line bookstores, any good or bad experiences, or stores that you’d like to see listed, please let me know.

For convenience, the bookshops have been grouped by country. US and UK sites generally only stock English language titles, so if you’re looking for a title in another language, try one for the relevant country, as listed below:

Non-Specific


Bokus
Chain of on-line bookshops for Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark in the local language. Fast search facilty.

AddALL
Search engine to find used and out-of-print books.

Abe Books
The world’s largest online marketplace for used, rare, and out-of-print books. Abebooks connects those who buy books with those who sell them, providing abundant selection at affordable prices.

AntiQbook
Database to search 400 independent booksellers around the world.

Australia

None known.

Brazil

Bom de Livros
On-line bookstore with some aviation titles. Search facility and on-line ordering.

Canada

AbeBooks
Claims to be the world’s largest source of out of print books and periodicals – 13 million titles listed. Good search engine. Search results give you detailed information on the item being offered for sale, with a link to the actual bookseller. Lots of aviation titles available. Obviously, the database consists of mostly US and Canadian publications.

Indigo
Formerly ‘Chapters’, Canada’s leading bookseller, with 2+ million titles, including those hard to find Canadian titles. ‘Amazon’ style on-line bookshop for Canada. Sells books, music, Videos, DVDs, software etc. Advanced search facility.

Spitfire Emporium
Aviation books, videos and aviation art for sale. Includes a good selection of Canadian aviation specific titles.

Stillman Books
Vancouver, British Columbia based bookseller. Includes a good range of aviation and military titles. Online catalogues available.

Denmark

Skrold Antikvariat
Danish secondhand bookstore. Flyvning in the transport category yields several aviation books.

Finland

Aviation Shop
Is only specialized aviation shop in Finland.

France

BOL, La Librairie sur Internet
Another ‘Amazon’ style on-line bookstore, but this time no English text option, (although you can order French books from the UK version of BOL). Discount prices on all stock. The search engine doesn’t give as many aviation titles as ‘Alapage’ does, for the same keywords.

Germany

Amazon De
The German branch of the giant US bookseller Amazon. Originally created by the take-over of a local German on-line bookseller. Sells US and German titles. Flexible search facility.

BOL Deutschland
Same facilities as the other BOL sites. Flexible search facility, discount prices.

Italy

Feltrinelli
Fast search engine. On-line ordering with useful currency conversion of prices.

Bancarella Aeronautica
Italian bookshop for pilots and aviation enthusiasts.

Netherlands

BOL Netherlands
Same facilities as the other BOL sites. Flexible search facility, discount prices.

Flash Aviation
Aviation supplies shop – books, models, maps, flight simulations etc. English and Dutch text. Includes second hand items. Stock is listed from the ‘articles’ button, but only the titles and prices are shown – no further details are given.

Luchtvaart Hobby Shop
Describes itself as ‘Europe’s Aviation Megastore’. Supplies books, videos, models, flight sims etc. English text option available.

www.boeken.nl
Dutch text only website. Stocks include 2.6 million Dutch, French and English books with discount prices. Fast search facility.

New Zealand

Flight Manuals on CD
Interesting selection of official military and civil aircraft pilot’s manuals available on CD-ROM. Covers a wide range of aircraft types. On-line ordering.

Norway

Bokkilden.no
On-line bookshop with 1.5 million titles in English and Norwegian. Flexible search facility.

Singapore

No info yet.

Spain

L’Aeroteca
On-line aeronautics bookstore. Site still under construction. No on-line search or ordering yet.

Casa del Libro
On-line Spanish bookstore, much like the original Amazon.com.

Buscar Libros
Spanish Language Book Search. International search engine for Spanish language books of all types: new, used, rare, antique, specialized, out of print, first edition and text books.

Sweden

Adlibris
On-line bookshop with the usual search facility and on-line ordering. Discount prices. Not as many aviation titles as Internetbokhandeln.

Bokus
Swedish branch of the Bokus chain of bookshops.

UK

Amazon UK
The UK branch of the American giant on-line bookstore, resulting from the take-over of the UK startup company ‘Bookpages’. The same discounted prices and easy ordering, but much smaller stocklist. Relatively few titles published before 1997 feature in its database, although all recent titles are included, as are many US editions. Claims to stock all UK titles currently in print. Recommended for newly published titles.

Aviation Retail Direct
Aviation books, models, magazines, videos etc. Titles for the spotter and enthusiast.

East Anglia Books
Aviation and military books for the historian, collector and enthusiast. New and second-hand books and ephemera with an emphasis on those related to the history of the USAAF in England. Holds the largest selection of American WW2 unit histories in Europe, plus RAF unit histories, individual aircraft stories, personal stories, airfields, nose art etc. Many unusual and rare items.

Helion & Company
Military, maritime and aviation booksellers, with a very large range of Luftwaffe and German language books. Over 15,000 in-print titles in stock. Free booksearch service for out-of-print titles, including location of rare and foreign language material.

Key Publishing
Website for the well-known publisher of aviation/military/transport books and magazines. Also includes new product information and special offers.

The Aviation Bookshop
As it’s name suggests, The Aviation Bookshop deals with only one subject. Based in London, the store has been supplying new and secondhand books to enthusiasts and professionals worldwide for nearly 50 years. Personal visitors will come away with a vivid impression of the shop stacked floor to ceiling with aviation books and magazines. The website gives details of the latest releases and will shortly feature a full catalogue search facility.

Waterstones
The respected high street bookstore. Over 1.2 million titles in stock. Flexible search facility.

USA

Amazon
Launched in July 1995, Amazon.com now claims to be the Earth’s biggest on-line bookstore, with 4.7 million items in stock. Offers ‘Delivers’, an e-mail subscription service for notifying readers about new releases and other items of interest. Features discount prices on all titles, and a fast flexible search engine. It does include many British titles, but only those from the major UK publishers.
Aviation Heritage
Offers aviation books, scale drawings and CD-roms for aviation researchers and modellers. Good reference information, but confined almost entirely to US subjects.

Barnes and Noble
Website for the well-known US high-street bookstore. Also sells magazines, music, software and bargain books. Discount prices on a huge stock of items. Includes search facility and many out-of-print titles.

Byrd Aviation Books
Very useful aviation bookshop which specialises in pioneer & WWI aviation books. They also have a large stock of back
issues of US & UK aviation magazines which can be viewed on the website.

Linden Hill Imports
Importer of Russian/CIS aviation books, kits and accessories. Website features products for sale, model photos & articles.

Powell’s Books
Claims to be the largest new & used bookstore in the world. On-line bookstore with the usual search and ordering facilites.

Hamilton Book
Bargain books list.

Other Countries

LeYa Online
Portuguese on-line bookstore. Very few aviation titles. Search facility.

3 thoughts on “Aviation Book Sellers”

  2. I tried to access Aero Book Co (mentioned above) and was told the domain has expired.

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