Jan:

You might try Weldon and Wesley (not cheap but very good), who regularly
have a shell section to their catalogs.  They are located north of London
and have moved since I was last there 12 years ago.  I remembering taking
the train and then a cab to get there.  I walked in looked around their
inventory and bought a couple hundred dollars of books that they shipped
back for me.  I have included their email address below.

http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~wheldwes/

Paul Drez
Albuquerque, New Mexico

P.S.  They also let me into one of their warehouses where I got to look
through stacks of reprints and pick up some really neat items!

At 01:55 PM 2/14/00 CET, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>My wife and me are going to London for a week, just to relax a bit after a
>very hectic year. While we are there, of course I'd like to visit some good
>shell stores or dealers or shell-book stores. Who can give me the best (and,
>if possible, least expensive) addresses, please ?
>
>And if anyone would be interested in fresh water snails, I can always try to
>find something in the Thames. Who knows I will catch a Darjeeling-snail, or
>a fossilised Thatcher-mussel ?!  ;=))
>
>Best greetings,
>
>Jan Haspeslagh
>Belgium
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