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Cellar Stories has been buying and selling all types of books for over twenty-eight years. We're the largest used and rare bookstore in the smallest state in the US. While we specialize in Rhode Island History, New England History, Art & Architecture, Modern First Editions, Poetry, and Mathematics, we have a stock of approximately 60,000 volumes covering all categories from vintage paperbacks, pulps and collectible ephemera to antiquarian volumes on many subjects.

Please call or email us if you are looking for items you do not find online.

 New stock is added daily, so if you're in the Providence area, be sure to stop in and browse!  We're conveniently located DownCity between the Convention Center and the Providence Performing Arts Center.

Featured Items

8vo. 125 pp. Some rubbing and light soil to covers, wear to covers at edges, former owner's small pencil mark front cover, pages browned slightly. Young, tender, beautiful Virgie- the sort of girl men dream about- was a part time member of the world's oldest profession. Virgie, Goodbye.
Rothman, Nathan.
New York: Avon Novels, 1952. 8vo. 125 pp. Some rubbing and light soil to covers, wear to covers at edges, former owner's small pencil mark.. more
Price: $40.00
8vo. 265 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, very light off-setting to free end papers from dj. Light rubbing and tiny tears along dj edges. Book is in great condition. SIgned and inscribed by Harry Blackstone. Illustrated instructions for magic tricks throughout. Blackstone's Secrets of Magic.
Blackstone, Harry.
New York: George Sully & Co., 1929. 8vo. 265 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, very light off-setting to free end papers from.. more
Price: $500.00
Unpaginated. 4to. Boards in dustjacket. Matching pictorial boards and jacket. Winner of the 2009 Caldecott award; no sticker to book or jacket. Signed by author and illustrator on title page. Book in fine condition aside from slight wear to spine ends. Jacket near fine with minor scuffing and light wear to spine foot. The House in the Night.
Swanson, Susan Marie.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. Unpaginated. 4to. Boards in dustjacket. Matching pictorial boards and jacket. Winner of the 2009 Caldecott award; no sticker to book.. more
Price: $500.00
151 pp. Very light age-discoloration and dust-soiling to textblock. Otherwise book is in excellent condition. Interior clean and crisp, binding tight. Very light wear to dj edges, slight sunning to dj spine, tiny chip to upper edge of rear dj panel. Original $9.95 price to front dj flap. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. First American edition. The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies.
Barthes, Roland.
New York: Hill & Wang, 1979. 151 pp. Very light age-discoloration and dust-soiling to textblock. Otherwise book is in excellent condition. Interior clean and crisp, binding.. more
Price: $20.00
36mo. 427 pp. Spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed, shaken, former owners notes in pencil to endpapers. Part of the Big Little Book series. Illustrated throughout. "The engines quickly failed for lack of fuel. With the control rudder also shot away, the pilot was unable to keep the plane on an even keel. In a few moments the giant bomber began to careen wildly."" Lieutenant Commander Don Winslow.
Martinek, Frank V.
Racine, Wis.: Whitman Publishing Co., 1935. 36mo. 427 pp. Spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed, shaken, former owners notes in pencil to endpapers. Part of.. more
Price: $28.00
Short 4to. 136 pp. Quarter vellum over boards. Heavy wear including rubbing, bumping, board exposure at edges, paper to boards chipped and peeled, stains, and soiling. Hinges lightly split in places. Interior soiled, foxed, stained, with offsetting from text. Ffep torn in half horizontally, both pieces still attached to hinge. Insect damage to part of covers and some page edges. "Attempted in Imitation of Mr. Locke's Manner. With a Dissertation on James III, 1420, or an Essay to reconcile what St. Paul has said concerning Men's being justified by Faith, with what St. James has said concerning their being justified by Works." A Paraphase and Notes on the Epistle of St. James.
"Peirce, James".
London: Richard Ford, 1738. Short 4to. 136 pp. Quarter vellum over boards. Heavy wear including rubbing, bumping, board exposure at edges, paper to boards.. more
Price: $350.00
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