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  Historical version 10 of Category Bookshops (view current version)
Not sure if it's worth adding Waterstones etc here... but independent bookshops are definitely appropriate.
See also:
- Time Out feature on London's specialist bookshops (note: not all still in existence)
 - Guardian feature on "London's finest bookshops" (no date, so no idea how old it is)
 - pfig's Google map of London bookshops
 - diamond geezer's "map" of independent non-specialist non-second-hand bookshops by postcode
 
Auto-generated list of bookshops on this guide (view them on a map):
- 56a Infoshop, SE17 3AE
 - Any Amount Of Books
 - Bookcase, W4 1PD
 - Bookmarks, WC1B 3QE
 - Books For Amnesty, W6 9JT
 - Books For Cooks, W11 1NN
 - Bookseller Crow On The Hill, SE19 3AF
 - Bookshop On The Heath
 - Brixton Book Mongers
 - Building Centre
 - Chener Books, SE22 8HN
 - Chess And Bridge, W1U 7RT
 - Chicken And Frog, CM15 9AT
 - Church Street Bookshop
 - Daunt Books, EC2V 6AX
 - Daunt Books, NW3 2QB
 - Daunt Books, W1U 4QW
 - Foster Books, W4 2DR
 - Gay's The Word
 - Housmans Booksellers
 - Institute Of Contemporary Arts
 - Japan Centre, SW1Y 4EA
 - John Sandoe Books
 - Judd Books
 - Keith Fawkes, NW3 1HJ
 - Kew Bookshop
 - Kirkdale Bookshop
 - Lituanica, E6 6LA
 - Lituanica, IG11 8EY
 - London Transport Museum
 - Morden Hall Bookshop, SM4 5JD
 - Museum Of London Docklands
 - Museum Of The Home
 - Osterley Bookshop
 - Primrose Hill Books
 - Quaker Cafe, NW1 2BJ
 - Riverside Bookshop, SE1 2QN
 - Round Table Books, SW9 8SP
 - SOAS Bookshop, WC1H 0XG
 - Sanderstead Station
 - Stanfords, Covent Garden
 - Tate Modern
 - Wellcome Collection Cafe, NW1 2BE