Call for an appointment to sell your interesting books to us. We cannot accommodate walk in sales, so, do please call. We will be very happy to arrange a meeting with our buyer at the store or for larger collections at your home.
Desirable subjects:
- Ancient History: Egypt, Rome and Greece
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Art, Architecture, Photography, Film: monographs, criticism and history
- Children’s books in dustjackets, especially classics, award winners and series books
- Cookbooks
- Decorative Arts: antiques, jewelry, furniture and glass
- Eastern Religion
- Fiction & Drama: classics, modernists, postmodernists, beats: especially, Beckett, Bukowski, Calvino, Camus, Chandler, Dick, Faulkner, Hammett, Hemingway, Hesse, Kerouac, Lovecraft, Joyce, Musil, Nabokov, Pynchon, Salinger, Stein, Winterson, Wodehouse, Woolf, etc…
- Fishing & Hunting
- Foreign Language
- Gardening: also farming, beekeeping and trees
- Military History
- Music: history, theory, particularly classical and jazz
- Native American
- Philosophy/Literary Criticism: especially, Adorno, Aquinas, Barthes, Benjamin, Bloom, Deleuze, Derrida, Descartes, Guattari, Hegel, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Nietzsche, Steiner, Vendler, Wittgenstein
- Poetry: especially, Ashberry, Baudelaire, Bishop, Bukowski, Celan, Crane, Cummings, Dickinson, Frost, H.D., Heaney, L. Hughes, Kavanaugh, Levertov, Marianne Moore, Patchen, Pessoa, Plath, Pound, Rimbaud, Sexton, Stevens, Walcott, Whitman, Yeats, etc…
- Rhode Island: city and county histories, atlases and plat books
- Science: natural sciences, hard sciences and mathematics
- Transport: planes, trains, boats, cars and motorbikes
- Travel & Exploration: history and narrative
Presses: New Directions, Black Sparrow, Grove, university presses, Loeb Library, Routledge, Everyman's Library, Modern Library, etc…