Mrs Lofthouse’s Emporium

Welcome to Mrs Lofthouse’s Emporium !! We are a bookshop based in Scarborough UK.

We buy and sell a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books and accesories. Our store aims to be accesible for all readers and stock a wide range of popular genres.

You can bring books in to sell (Sorry we can’t buy them all 🙂 ) or exchange.

Want to sell /trade/ donate books?

Donating

Drop off

Donations help keep our shop running and we really appreciate any donation. You don’t need to call or send photos, just pop by and drop them off at the door!! We can accept any books as donations no quibble.

Collection

Unfortunately we can’t currently collect donations from your house without sending photos first. Please send us a photo and mention that you want to donate, we will look into collection, it is very rare that we can collect though due to cost and time restrictions of moving 1000s of books!! (Plus our shop is getting pretty full) 

Cash first then donate second? 

( As our storeroom fills quickly, we don’t accept donations that we first refuse for cash) So we can buy books for cash but ask any extra books are taken to nearby charities if we have first declined to buy for cash.  Please see below and visit more of the website to establish what we are looking to buy. 

We are always buying or looking to trade: 

Scarborough books, Art Books, Photography books, Horror, Graphic Novels, Sprayed edges, Romantacy, Manga, Warhammer, RPG, and much more

_{How to exchange books for store credit –}

1. Bring your books to the shop
2. We will appraise them (we may reject a lot please don’t be offended- We reject on saleablitiy not quality of the writing!!! )
3. We issue you a store credit note which can be exhanged in our shop for other books.

( We don’t exchange most Romance style books and we may reject a percentage of Crime thrillers / general fiction. )

(We can exchange or buy 99% of., manga, sprayed edges., graphic novels, rare art books, horror, Roleplaying games and Warhammer)

How to sell

1. Drop off – You can drop off books at the shop and we will assess them (it might take a small amount of time 1-2 hours to asses them if a larger quantity.  ) We offer 50% higher rate fopr trade than cash
2.  Contact us first before drop off.  – Please use the form or send us an email directly if you have too many books and want to check if we are interested in the books. 
3.  Live out of Scarborough and District?  You can post and we can arrange a courier if we are interested. 

PLEASE NOTE – WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN BUYING OR TRADING ALL BOOKS – There are many books we will struggle to sell unfortunately!!! Please don’t be offended if we turn down your books, it’s really down to space in the shop and other factors.

LARGE COLLECTIONS

If you wish us to view the books in your house we will need photos of the books (not each book, just a few photos of the shelves or boxes with the books ) – This is easier for you and bettter for us than lists. Please email us or use the upload form.

PLEASE NOTE

We do not do housecalls without photos. Please email us or give us a call us regarding large collections of books.