Gleebooks Antiquarian & Second Hand Bookshop

The hours I’ve spent in here…
I used to live a couple of streets away, and was revisiting my old haunts and gladly traipsed back in to the little secondhand Gleebooks here, at the far end of Glebe Point Road. It was a bit of a time warp, the same wooden shelves in the window stocking an eclectic array of readerly delights. There were fewer of the plastic bins full of bargains on the streetfront and fewer groundlevel piles of new stock inside which I fondly remember trawling through to get the best picks before anyone else.
They’ve still a fantastic selection of literary fiction, classics, and non-​fiction of all types and persuasions — a great deal of my undergrad degree was researched with books gleaned from here, and I’m sure I’m not alone in that. The books are really well organised, cheaper than some other secondhand stores around and the staff polite and seriously knowledgeable. A Sydney institution.

Not four blocks up the road from Gleebooks is another little shop called Gleebooks. This Gleebooks, however, differs from the original Gleebooks as it sells primarily second hand books and children’s literature. Gleebooks.
I was walking down the road on sunny Sunday morning and I happened to glance to the left of my vision, a small hard covered book placed in the window, part of the display. It was ‘Dr. Seuss Goes to War’ a collection of his and other cartoonists political cartoons from the World War II period.
I goose-​stepped inside and asked the shop keep about the act of acquiring it. He instructed me that I was welcome to grab it, and grab it I did. As I’ve probably mentioned before, I buy most books online, so it’s these second hand book shops that I love going to, because chances are you’ll find something interesting, written a long time ago, that you just couldn’t find online.
And for $ 30 for a hardcover book by my man, Theodore Seuss Giselle, that’s just what the doctor ordered.