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Carlton Secondhand Books

A paperback Aladdin's cave

678 Swanston Street
Melbourne, VIC 3053

Nearest Train: Swanston Street trams

Phone: +61 3 9348 1127

Paperbacks, hardcovers, pulp fiction, high-brow literature, academic texts, children's books, coffee-table tomes, pocket dictionaries--whatever you need the Carlton Bookshop probably has it. With eight rooms of shelves, it boasts of being Melbourne's largest second-hand bookshop, with the widest range of material. Located right on the upper reaches of Swanston Street, almost opposite the main campus of the University of Melbourne, its prime site means that it gets a steady stream of customers, either on lunch breaks from City office towers or looking for university texts to cram with!