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Over 40 years experience buying and selling comics. Maine, we have a selection of more than 50000 rare books and antique volumes, plus. We also have a great inventory of scholarly and used volumes. The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. Crabtrees collection old books has been a reliable source of outofprint books since 1983. We even have a childrens room where youngsters can browse. Pfff, quite a relief to find out im not turning senile. Come and browse our approximately 10,000 hardcover titles. Our speciality is in old and rare books, specifically early printed books before 1800 including incunabula, early bibles pre1800, manuscripts in general, handwritten books, medieval manuscripts, books of hours, archives, natural history books, color plate books, books on travel and exploration and much more.
Rare,used and scholarly bookstore in hallowell, maine merrills bookshop in hallowell, maine, is an old fashioned bookstore with a selection of rare, used and scholarly tomes that cover almost 500 years. Come in and visit with us, or give us a call with the authors name and book title, and we will look for you. Depending upon the books, the situation, and the needs of the client, we either. Shops range from a general stock of over 100,000 books to specialist stock of several hundred titles. The work is done by hand, using traditional methods. Well known to book collectors and booklovers, our site is an excellent resource for discovering a rough value of an old book. Use our articles to identify and value the comic books in your collection, or let us do the hard work for you with a free appraisal. At we buy books, we arent just searching for your oldest and most neglected books we want any type of books. The best 10 bookstores in portland, me last updated april 2020.
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In store buying decisions and offers may differ from online bids. Youre responsible for getting the book there in one piece, so take the time to wrap it well. For more than 20 years, avid readers and serious collectors from all over the world have come here for rare and antiquarian books. Delaware, kansas, maine, massachusetts, nevada, new hampshire, new jersey, new york, pennsylvania and vermont.
Carefully organized shelves of carefully culled books on every subject ready for browsing. The old book shop of bordentown nj is a general used, outofprint and antiquarian bookshop. We carry more than 32,000 titles in stock at our mail order operation located in sebago, maine, northwest of portland. Due to our location closures related to covid19, we have suspended online book buying for the time being.
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