Best rare bookstore in the Northwest

That is a bold claim, and not one that we take lightly.  The title of this post was chosen to encourage people to read further however we have reason to be able to make the claim- this year we have successfully sold 4 separate books for more than $5,000 for customers, procured higher prices for those items than could be expected at auction/had they been sold by nearly any other seller and paid the owner's of said items more than could be expected if their books had sold anywhere else.  We do so by providing our customers with the highest level of customer service and knowledge of the books we sell, by listing and describing them to the best of our abilities, and by dealing directly with the rare book buyer rather than using a middle man or auction house. 

In the past we have dealt directly with Bauman Rare Books and Whitmore Rare Books, sold items to significant collectors worldwide and sold books on consignment for higher prices than most others would expect.  We mentioned the King Solomon's Mines in a previous post and which has now been sold, and we have now sold 2 copies of the edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland signed and illustrated by Salvador Dali which were also previously mentioned. 

Of course this is all to say please contact us if you have something which is truly rare and we will give you our honest opinion of that item's saleability and whether or not we think we would be the proper bookstore for your collection.  We are most interested in books valued at over $2,500 or special collections which are significant, though we will make offers on items that are less valuable if they are rare and desirable enough to interest us.  Again, we are a family owned business with between 35 and 40 years of experience between the two of us, and we do everything we can to ensure that those who deal with us are entirely satisfied.  Please contact us at

longfellowspdx (at) comcast (dot) net
or
503 239-5222

Thanks again and we hope that this finds you well.

New Books of 2012

Many moons later, we reappear.  We have been having a decent year in 2012, with some high end books coming through the store and some of them even leaving our possession.  We have dealt in signed and illustrated Salvador Dali books and lithographs, had a great book fair (thank you to everyone who came to visit us at the Double Tree Lloyd Center) and now have some wonderful books in the store in consignment, including another copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland signed and illustrated by Dali, a First Printing/State of one of the seminal adventures novels- King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard- and various other books.  I will come back to visit the blog every once in a while and feel free to contact us about either of these books or anything else.  The Dali book is priced at $10,000 and the Haggard at $7,500.  Both are in exceptionally nice condition and wonderful finds for any collector of either man's work.