Sell Your Books to Us

We often get the question "Do you buy books?"

We are always buying quality new and used books (and related items) in our subject areas. Some of our best material is acquired when we buy a collection from an individual. Whether you have a single book or an entire library for sale, please consider offering it to us.

Here is a more detailed list of things we buy.

We buy in these subject areas:

  • Art--primarily 1840s to the present
  • Illustration--primarily 1880 to the present
  • Graphic Design
  • Animation
  • Comic  Art
    • Comic Strips
    • Newspaper & Magazine Panel Cartoons 
    • Comic Books
    • Graphic Novels

We buy:

  • books
  • magazines/periodicals
  • posters and prints
  • ephemera
  • autographs
  • original art
    • illustration art
    • comic book and comic strip art
    • animation drawings and backgrounds
    • paintings and artwork by artists in animation and film

We pay cash for books. When we evaluate your books, we will generate a cash offer for your books. We will pay you immediately in cash, Venmo, Zelle, or check. We can also issue you a store credit for your books (the trade offer will be higher than the cash offer). Sometimes regular customers will prefer the more generous trade credit than the cash offer.

It is very important to contact us in advance. If you are planning to bring the books to the showroom, you will want to call in advance to confirm that the buyer (that's me, Stuart) is in and that what you have is of interest to us.

I will travel to look at bigger collections. You can email us a list of books or photographs of groupings of books. A photograph of book spines lined up on a shelf is perfect, as long as each title is legible. (Whether I will travel to purchase your collection is a combination of the distance required to travel and the desirability of the collection.)

 Here are some examples of photos we find useful.

 

All the photos above are perfectly sufficient for us to see what you are offering.

The photo below is an example of some items that don't show as well.

Among the books on this shelf are some very thin books, saddle-stapled books and magazines, and books without any text on the spine, which are all hard to recognize and identify. In these cases, I suggest you spread out the items and photograph them face up.