
One of London’s foremost and best-loved bookshops, we offer a thoughtful and enticing selection of new books across the humanities, and a range of services that includes quarterly catalogues, mail order, subscriptions and private libraries.
John Sandoe opened his tiny Chelsea shop in 1957 with Félicité Gwynne, sister of the cookery writer Elizabeth David. We now occupy the two adjacent old shops too, with room for some 30,000 titles. Books are everywhere. An old customer, recollecting the shop’s earliest days, said that Sandoe’s had “all the books one could ever hope to find in one place”: the shop has grown but the ethos remains the same.
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The title sweeps together the disparate but connected groups of artists (writers, photographers, poets, composers and architects as well as painters) working in Sussex in the first half of the C20th. This remarkable illustrated study looks at Charleston and the Bloomsbury group, David Jones at Ditchling, Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, Edward Burra, John Piper see more
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A collection of C19th photographic portraits of Black African, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian and mixed heritage people. This feat of curation brings together plate negatives, stereoscopic images, visiting cards, studio photographs etc from public and private archives, to take a long look at questions of race and representation. The quality of the reproductions is very high.
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From the 50s to the 70s, Tom Wilson produced a dazzling line-up of folk, rock and jazz artists: Sun Ra, Bob Dylan, Nico, John Coltrane, . This is the first book about him. It features essays, interviews and photographs. The publishers, ?ditions 1989, are a tiny Parisian publishing house who specialise in biograpical writing by see more
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THE SANDOE’S EXPERIENCE
Knights’ moves and rabbit holes: we hope our website reminds you of your visits to Sandoe’s, where the unexpected and lesser-known rub shoulders with the familiar and canonical.
THE SANDOE’S EXPERIENCE
Knights’ moves and rabbit holes: we hope our website reminds you of your visits to Sandoe’s, where the unexpected and lesser known rub shoulders with the familiar and canonical.
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A survey of surviving buildings of post-war British architecture, the manifestation of the then ambitious and hopeful welfare state. A magnificent example of passionate, high-quality self-publishing and an ode to the gritty and optimistic Brutalist canon, it covers housing, schools, theatres, bridges, stations, administrative buildings, universities, churches, shopping malls... Superb photography and excellent essays. Features see more
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This delicious book derives from an album of watercolours and sketches made by the wife of the British Consul after the First Opium War, when the Treaty Ports were opened. Full of reproductions, with excellent annotations and commentary by Andrew Hillier, it gives a wonderful insight into the world of the Europeans in China – see more
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The special, limited edition is contained in a cloth slip case, and comes with two limited edition prints. Some of these masterful photos look directly at devotion: a woman dances, a sacrificial ram is covered in holi handprints, and prayer flags are swept up in the wind. Others capture quotidian moments — a man feeds see more
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Some of these masterful photos look directly at devotion: a woman dances, a sacrificial ram is covered in holi handprints, and prayer flags are swept up in the wind. Others capture quotidian moments - a man feeds pigeons, a cockerel crows -- and transcendental possibilities abound. Bound in burnt orange cloth.
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7/20 of a limited edition of twenty, in a black cloth slip-case. Beautifully bound with bold cover artwork in sumptuous colours. Much of the Llanos, the tropical plain situated east of the Andes in Venezuela, has been devastated to create grazing areas for cattle. Hato Pi?ero, a nature reserve of 80,00 hectares, has so far see more
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Much of the Llanos, the tropical plain situated east of the Andes in Venezuela, has been devastated to create grazing areas for cattle. Hato Pi?ero, a nature reserve of 80,00 hectares, has so far resisted this fate. Its rich forested areas and wetlands are untouched, and its remaining wildlife corridors retain their extraordinary eco-diversity. Cowcher see more
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A book of black and white photographs of the steep, rugged moorland on a 6,000-acre estate in the Scottish Highlands - Kinloch Hourn - and of the careful management of its herd of red deer. The stalking, gralloching and use of ponies, done by a very small and experienced team, is done in traditional ways. see more
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Robin Bynoe began collecting Carel Weight's art in 1982, which precipitated a great friendship that was to span the next fifteen years. Acclaimed for his portraits, and his sometimes sinister, often humorous depictions of modern life, this book gives depth to the way Weight is often bracketed off as an English eccentric narrative painter. Bynoe see more
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This glorious book contains reproductions of 95 gouaches that belonged to an C18th Swedish vice-admiral. The images are exquisite and romantic; the accompanying text is informative and light of touch. There are sampans for transporting washing, sampans for picnics, sampans for passengers, ducks, bricks, tea, flowers...
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Cruises in North Africa, in two volumes: 'In the Sahara: by camel, by car, by cruise-ship' and 'Roaring Twenties Tourism Seen by Sandoz', an artist, 41 and well-established by the time he set out on his journey from Algeria to Marrakech, who painted, wrote and photographed what he saw along the way.
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EDNA O’BRIEN


John Sandoe is an integral part of my life in London. It is quite simply the best bookshop anyone could wish for.
EDNA O’BRIEN