Foster Books

Foster Books 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.

Autumn seems to have arrived in all it’s soggy splendour here in Chiswick with some much needed rain ☔️🌧️ This lovely Ed...
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…

Two scarce works of Irish poetry 🇮🇪The Wild Harp (1913) - in a deluxe or early issue binding. Illustrated by C. M. Watts...
25/08/2026

Two scarce works of Irish poetry 🇮🇪

The Wild Harp (1913) - in a deluxe or early issue binding. Illustrated by C. M. Watts. With poems by W. B. Yeats and James Joyce.

Modern Anglo-Irish Verse (1914) - first edition, with poems by W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and A. Conan Doyle.

The first UK edition of Jorge Luis Borges’ fantastical short stories, translated in collaboration with Borges, who wrote...
18/08/2026

The first UK edition of Jorge Luis Borges’ fantastical short stories, translated in collaboration with Borges, who wrote that they ‘tried to make these stories read as though they had been written in English’.

It includes a new preface, commentaries and an autobiographical essay by Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni, and was also the most comprehensive edition of his work in English at its time of publication.

This weekend’s update! The ground under our feet has been restored…to any poor tourists who visited us, thanks for endur...
11/08/2026

This weekend’s update! The ground under our feet has been restored…to any poor tourists who visited us, thanks for enduring the disruption and the high levels of dust, even from us!

They came back overnight and dug a bigger hole - definitely looks for treasure… 📚🏴‍☠️🗺️🪎
07/08/2026

They came back overnight and dug a bigger hole - definitely looks for treasure… 📚🏴‍☠️🗺️🪎

We’ve got a hole and we’re looking into it…
04/08/2026

We’ve got a hole and we’re looking into it…

Oh no! It’s too hot outside? Such a shame x
07/07/2026

Oh no! It’s too hot outside? Such a shame x

Some startling photographs from Richard Avedon’s influential book of portraits, Observations (1959). It was his first bo...
02/07/2026

Some startling photographs from Richard Avedon’s influential book of portraits, Observations (1959). It was his first book, and was a collaborative effort between Avedon and Truman Capote, his friend, who wrote the commentary. Many famous people of the 20th century feature, including Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Louis Armstrong and Humphrey Bogart, among many others.

Loving the 60’s space age feel of this dust jacket!The Moonraker film (1979) veered so far from the original book that t...
30/06/2026

Loving the 60’s space age feel of this dust jacket!

The Moonraker film (1979) veered so far from the original book that this book was licensed by Glidrose, who own the Fleming copyrights, to be written after the film script.

Capitalising on the resurgence of science fiction, as a result of the hugely popular Star Wars (1977) and NASA test flights for its Space Shuttle, the new film left the English shores of the book to include an outer space setting, scenes in Rio, California and Venice, and a dramatic laser battle. It became the highest-grossing film in the franchise’s history until Goldeneye in 1995.

11/06/2026

Our Bedford Park and Chiswick window for the 60th kicking off this weekend.

The world’s first garden suburb, once a fashionable home to artists such as W.B. Yeats and Camille Pissarro, was saved from demolition by the first Bedford Park Festival in 1967.

The Festival’s first patron, poet and architectural critic, John Betjeman, described Bedford Park as ‘the most significant suburb built in the last century, probably the most significant in the Western world.’

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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

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+442089952768

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