24th August, 2025. Note to our customers in the United States. The Finnish Postal Services are temporarily suspending shipments to the US due to uncertainties with the customs practices. Therefore we are unable to deliver your orders for the time being. We will let you know when the situation gets back to normal again.

Antiquarian Bookstore Tessi - a vintage brick-and-mortar store

We are located at the heart of Tapiola Garden City, in its old center, as a vintage brick-and-mortar antiquarian bookstore in the Mäntytorni apartment tower. This building was one of the very first ones to be built in Tapiola, and our shop was the first shop to open here. Books have been sold here since the spring of 1954, and this became an antiquarian bookstore in the 1970s.

Our online shop

1. Search through the shelves of our online store and choose your items for your basket.

2. Choose the delivery method - by mail or pick up from our store.

3. i) Delivery fee is 4,90€ for orders below 60€ to Finland.

ii) Delivery fee is 9,90 for orders with home delivery to Finland.

iii) To deliveries outside Finland we add the Finnish Mail postal service costs as such.

4. Pay directly (*) by Klarna Payment Service, or

5. Choose invoice prepayment by bank transfer or paypal after order confirmation, and

6. Wait for the delivery :-)

(*) the direct payment is possible only for deliveries to Finland, as to all deliveries elsewhere we need to add the specific postal fee.

Finland. One of the Nordic Countries in Europe.

The City of Espoo. At the Southern coast.

Tapiola Garden City. West of the Capital Helsinki.

There is a metro line from Helsinki to Tapiola.

Our shop is just next to Kino Tapiola...

...at the white tower of Mäntytorni.

www.tessi.fi or the Antiquarian Bookstore Tessi webshop and homepage is managed by us in Finnish, and the system automatically translates it to English also... almost. We have (January 2025) noticed that once an item has been input, if any changes to the title of it are done, those are not copied to the English webshop version at all. Due to this defect we had cumulated hundreds of items with very strange and wrong names in the English side. These have now all been corrected and www.tessi.fi/en should be running ok. Sorry for the confusion this issue may have caused.

Below are listed some of the latest items in our webshop...