Starkmann Ltd has specialized in supplying libraries since 1974 when our family owned company was established in London. Our philosophy is to achieve business success by providing the very best and fastest book supply service at the best value for your library.

  • We supply books, monographs, series (standing orders), reference works, non-trade titles (grey literature), CD-Roms, DVDs, electronic publications and other audio-visual media published in English and German. In summary we supply the full range of library material excluding journals.
  • We cover all academic subject areas.
  • While our primary expertise is the supply of Anglo-American, German and Dutch publications, our service extends to the supply of English language publications from around the world.

In 1978, Starkmann USA was founded to provide books from North American publishers.

Since 1991 we have been publishing our highly regarded bibliographies Major Reference Works offering new and forthcoming top academic reference publications at advantageous pre-publication and at Special Starkmann prices.

www.starkmann.com was launched in 1998. Our website has evolved rapidly in conjunction with changing user requirements and customer suggestions. It provides a highly popular, user-friendly tool to assist librarians in their day-to-day communication and cooperation with Starkmann.

Our office in Modena, Italy, provides customer service support to customers in Spain and Italy.

As a medium-sized, independent and owner managed company we are able to deliver an efficient, personal and customer friendly service where you are never far from being in contact with the decision makers.

I invite you to let us know of your library's requirements and to test the efficiency of our services by sending us your trial orders.

Dr. Bernard A. Starkmann
Managing Director