Want to support us while our open shop is temporarily closed due to the Coronavirus? Buy an Underground Books gift card today so that when this crisis passes and we reopen our doors, we can celebrate together while we help you make a stack of goodies to read! We feel so..... More
Want to support us while our open shop is temporarily closed due to the Coronavirus? Buy an Underground Books gift card today so that when this crisis passes and we reopen our doors, we can celebrate together while we help you make a stack of goodies to read! We feel so..... More
According to Oscar Wilde, “A mask tells us more than a face." Well, if that's the case, you won't leave anybody wondering about your love of all things literary with a Bookish Mask from Underground Books! Cover your face with our Classic Covers Bookish Mask, featuring vintage favorites like Peter..... More
According to Oscar Wilde, “A mask tells us more than a face." Well, if that's the case, you won't leave anybody wondering about your love of all things literary with a Bookish Mask from Underground Books! This Bookish Mask in Shelf-Esteem print features luxe gilt-stamped spines, the envy of any..... More
According to Oscar Wilde, “A mask tells us more than a face." Well, if that's the case, you won't leave anybody wondering about your love of all things literary with a Bookish Mask from Underground Books! Face the world with our Bookish Mask in Typeface print, featuring excerpts from vintage..... More
Cleveland: Hydraulics & Pneumatics, 1985. Hardcover. 11" X 8 1/2". Light rubbing and wear to yellow cloth over boards. Sticker to spine. Mild age-yellowing to pages. Second page of "Fast Finding Index" partially missing/cut out. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. More
London: T. Hurst & T. Ostell, 1811. Hardcover. 6 1/2" X 4 1/8". [ix], 1-24,13-36, 25-48, 37-60, 49-72, 61-84, 73-96, 85-108, 97-144pp. Title dated 1803, "Proclamation" dated 1811. Pencilled notations to front free endpaper: "It appears to be an issue of 'The Spirit of English Wit' of 1809 enlarged--including the..... More
Through an open door, down worn stone steps, a peek of an archway of books and magic floating through the air...Fine Artist Jill Williams' painting "Magic Underground" captures the quiet, starlit magic a bookstore can hold for those who treasure books and love to read. Artist Jill Williams has been..... More
Birmingham, Alabama: Portrait Brokers of America, Inc., 1990. Paperback. 10 7/8" X 8 1/2". 88pp. Moderate edgewear to paper wraps, with small faint dampstain at top edge of upper wrap. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A very nice copy of this 1990 catalog of..... More
Stay gold and rep your bookstore with the Underground Books Bicycle tee, designed by our own summer 2019 staff member and lifelong honorary book fairy Ruthie Reeves! This size medium tee is 29" long and 20" wide, with sleeve length of 17". Megan thinks she looks real cool when she..... More
Stay gold and rep your bookstore with the Underground Books Bicycle tee, designed by our own summer 2019 staff member and lifelong honorary book fairy Ruthie Reeves! This size extra large tee is 31" long and 24" wide, with sleeve length of 20". Megan thinks she looks real cool when..... More
16" X 15". Never again worry about how many books to bring with you on a day out and about--you've got the the Underground Books tote-pak! Convert from tote to backpack with the pull of a strap! Zipper-secure and made from natural cotton canvas, the Underground Books tote-pak is soft..... More
Japan: Dai Nippon Printing Co., 2007. Hardcover. 6" X 4 3/8". Unpaginated. Very mild wear to dust jacket, with light dust soiling and light rubbing to edges. Light stains to rear and rear flap of dust jacket. Mild rubbing to edges and light dust soiling to hardcover binding. Binding is..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1975. Second Printing. Paperback. 8 7/8" X 5 1/2". 96pp. Moderate wear to pictorial wraps, with spots of scuffing and light soiling and mild edgewear. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Humorous gift inscription to front pastedown. Pages are unmarked. A very nicely preserved 1975..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1886. Hardcover. 6 1/4" X 4 3/8". 335pp. Signed publisher's binding by Amy Richards. Green cloth over boards with thistle stamped in dark green and silver to upper board and spine with silver title banner to upper board. Moderate edgewear and scattered rubbing to..... More
Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 10" X 10". Unpaginated. Signed by David Bottoms and inscribed to previous owner by Diane Kirkland. Lain in is a commemorative bookmark featuring the book cover. Moderate wear to dust jacket, with rubbing to edges and extremities, surface scratching..... More
Munich: Gina Kehayoff Verlag KG, 1996. Hardcover. 10 1/2" X 8". 137pp. Mild edgewear to dust jacket. white cloth over boards, with spine lettered in black. Mild edgewear to binding. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Glue stain to front pastedown. A very presentable copy of..... More
Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 281pp. Signed by Will D. Campbell to title page. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Moderate wear to jacket, with 2 1/4" tear to rear panel, a few small closed tears to edges, and sunning to..... More
New York: International Polygonics, Ltd., 1985. First thus; first IPL printing. Paperback. 7" X 4 1/8". 190pp. Bound in pictorial paper wraps, with cover illustration by Roger Roth. Moderate wear to binding, with rather heavy edgewear, creasing to sine, light dust soiling, and rather pronounced lean to spine. Previous owner's..... More
New York: Dutton, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 311pp. Stated First Printing. Signed by Author to title page. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Quarter-cloth maroon and creme hardcover binding. Newspaper article laid in: "A Flickering Fire: Real and Fictional Characters Pale in Lust..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5". 208pp. Heavy wear to dust jacket, with sunning, dust soiling, and chipping along edges and corners, no losses. Red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in black. Scattered rubbing to cloth and edgewear to binding, with heavy rubbing..... More
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Cleveland, Tennessee: James D. Vaughan, Music Publisher, 1966. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". 160pp. Over 150 hymns. Rather heavy wear to staplebound wraps, with heavy creasing, edgewear, and scattered rubbing. Very occasional inked marks to pages. Binding remains quite sound. An admittedly worn but complete copy of this collection..... More
Bruxelles: Andre De Rache, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 6 1/2". 271pp. Inscribed by Carlos de Radzitzky to Lorraine Goreau, journalist and biographer of singer and activist Mahalia Jackson, on half-title page (Radzitzky himself chronicled the history of hot jazz as well as penning biographies of Duke Ellington..... More
New York: John Wiley & Son, 1870. Hardcover. 8 5/8" X 6 1/4". xxiv, 1098pp, plus 4pp ads. Rebound in full green leather-grained cloth, with spine lettered in gilt. Bumping to corners of binding, firm and sound. Patterned endpapers. Tape repairs to title page. Foxing to pages throughout, heaviest to..... More
Howell, New Jersey; Wisbech, England: SQP Inc.; Fanfare, 2004. Paperback. 11 7/8" X 8 7/8". 112pp. Text in English and German. Mild edgwear to glossy pictorial wraps, with price sticker to rear. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A nice copy of this collection of colorful..... More
