Five Easy Steps to Selling Us Your Books!

1. Sort for Quality. The job starts at home. Please sort through your books ahead of time. We need your quality books free from dust, pet hair, mold, insects, etc.

2. Sort by Type. We're interested in purchasing anything we think we can sell, including current textbooks. Our stores (Sebastopol and Petaluma) are more likely to need fiction titles than our online warehouse (Santa Rosa). Please sort out the following types of books. We don't usually buy these.

   • Out-of-date textbooks
   • Library books
   • Book Club editions
   • Reader's Digest Condensed, National Geographic, and Time-Life books
   • Most Hardcover fiction
   • Harlequin Romance novels
   • Advance Reader's Copies (ARCs)
   • Books with underlining, highlighting, or margin notes
   • Magazines
   We may not buy all the books you bring in so be prepared to take those we can't use back with you.

3. Come In Or Make An Appointment. Please call ahead if you have more than four boxes of books. We have three locations, Petaluma, Sebastopol, and Santa Rosa (see right). Directions, and buying hours are listed.

4. How We Pay. We base what we pay on the current market value of the books in question. Very generally, that means 15% of the cover price in cash OR 25% of the cover price in trade credit. However “Pocket” size paperbacks, Children's Books, and Books on CD are eligible for trade credit only. (We no longer buy books on cassette.)

5. What's Trade Credit? Trade Credit is good for purchasing Used or Sale (Remainder) books. Trade Credit may not be used for purchasing new books. The online warehouse does not issue trade credit.

Thanks for selling us your Used & Rare Books!

*We reserve the right to close the buying counter at any time.