I take it from your question that you already know about the shop on Holloway Road.
For those that don't know this shop but might be interested, nowadays it is just called "The Aviation Bookshop". It is on the Holloway Road, half a mile or so south of Archway, on the right hand side as you head north from Islington, near a petrol station. The shop has a huge stock, but be prepared to hunt around and clamber up ladders as the books are not shelved in any particular order. You can haggle over prices, particularly if you buy a lot of books in one go. In the recent past, I have found there excellent first or early editions of St Exupery, Clostermann, Morrow Lindbergh, various WW1 and WW2 memoirs etc etc.
You can occasionally find old and sometimes interesting aviation related books in the travel bookshop just off Charing Cross Road . Copies of "20,000 Miles in a Flying Boat" turn up quite often, although frankly it is rather a dull read.
Anyone in East Anglia looking for a wacky, eclectic selection of civil and military aviation tomes should check out the Brazen Head bookshop in Burnham Market (aka Chelsea-next-the-Sea). It's also excellent for Nelsoniana, history in general and, well, everything really. Why not PPR and land at the delightful Burnham farm strip and then walk the mile or so into Burnham Market, passing Nelson's birthplace and local pub on the way. Otherwise the nearest landing site is Swanton Morley now that, alas, Little Snoring is closed to visiting aircraft
Last edited by FNG; 2nd Dec 2002 at 14:09.