No. 16, Marchpane

Located in the centre of Cecil Court, the quiet pedestrian lane lined with antiquarian bookshops, tucked away in London's bustling West End, Marchpane opened in August 1989. It was started by Laurence Worms (Ash Rare Books) and his then Director, Kenneth Fuller. Laurence kindly sold the business to Kenneth and now, nearly 30 years later it is a thriving rare (in both senses) London bookshop. Marchpane is the premier specialist in Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Liddell, books and ephemera in the West End. We welcome visitors in person and via the Internet, we keep regular shop hours, no appointment necessary. Marchpane is proud to be a key member of the burgeoning Cecil Court community. To see more of our books visit our Facebook page.

During the last three decades Marchpane has become well known as a specialist in children's and illustrated books from the eighteenth century up to the present day. On our shelves you can find early publications from Newbery's moral tales to signed first editions of Harry Potter.

We stock all the best British collectable children’s books, we nearly always have copies of great classics such as Winnie-the-Pooh, Peter Pan, The Wind in the Willows, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio, Nursery Rhymes as well as editions of Andersen, Grimm and Perrault etc. We also stock some of the rarest Home Front and Political children’s books of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.