G. DavidBookseller

Gustave David began selling books from a Cambridge market stall in 1896 and took the St Edward's Passage shop a decade later; his great-grandson David Asplin, in the firm since 1968, runs it today in partnership with Neil Adams, aboard since 1979 — a century and a quarter of one family's bookselling conducted from one of the city's most bookish alleys, between the church and the tearooms. Antiquarian and secondhand stock at every price from the pound bins to the rare-book room, and membership of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association held since 1927, which is its own kind of provenance. Generations of students have furnished their minds here on the cheap; the shop, correctly, has never mentioned it.