FREEMAN ANNIE QUIGLEY IS CELEBRATING HER 40TH ANNIVERSARY AS A BOOKSELLER AT BIBLIOPHILE
10 SEPTEMBER 2025
Annie Quigley is celebrating her 40th anniversary as a bookseller at Bibliophile, 'marking four decades of dedication to the independent bookselling community.' Under her ownership since 1992, the company has grown four times in size, and
on its entire database nearly 300,000 avid booklovers have at one time during the four decades been receiving the free mail order catalogue and been offered over half a million different titles. The company is still privately owned, and all staff have remained loyal for two decades or more and enjoy a profit share scheme. Customers complimentary letters and even gifts arrive daily.
Her bookselling landmarks include:
· By Royal Appointment Bookseller to The Duke of Edinburgh
· President of the Windsor Royal Warrant Holders Association
· Coronation Festival Buckingham Palace & St. James’s Palace “pop-up shop”
· Writing some 250,000 independent book reviews
· YouTube 2300 video book reviews and 4 million views
· Freeman Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers (Livery)
· Freeman of the City of London
· Public speaking including MENSA and book conferences in Korea and S. Africa
· Literary Agent
· BIBLIOPHILE Registered Trademark & International Standard Serial Number
· Erotica website
· Digital Publishing
· Book Search Service
· Signed Books from friends like Terry Jones and George Melly
In October 1985, as a recent graduate in Spanish, Annie walked through the
doors of St. Martin’s Lane bookshop just off Charing Cross Road which was
then the home of Bibliophile Books and that was where the story began!
Booksmith Wholesale soon followed and international travel, buying and selling remaindered stock under the tutelage of some great names in the
international and UK trade, and working with top publishers and booksellers.
Dubbed “Queen of Creative Booksellers” by Fred Bass, owner of Strand bookstore in New York