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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

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
342 pp. 8vo. Signed first edition. Minor soiling to head of textblock and fpd, binding very lightly shaken. Otherwise in excellent condition. Clean and crisp. Slight yellowing to dj flaps. Author's signature to title pg. A Home at the End of the World.
Cunningham, Michael.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1990. 342 pp. 8vo. Signed first edition. Minor soiling to head of textblock and fpd, binding very lightly shaken. Otherwise in.. more
Price: $50.00
12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. 143 pp. Small tear and pen mark on front cover. Pages 97-143 are folded up at bottom corner. Sunned. The daring story of a private nurse and an actress who trade identities and their strange love for one man. Dangerous Trade.
Thornton, Charles.
New York: Designs Publishing Corporation. 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. 143 pp. Small tear and pen mark on front cover. Pages 97-143 are.. more
Price: $27.00
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
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. 315 pp. Spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed, shaken. Part of the Big Little Book series. Illustrated throughout. "Exploring the inside of the rocket ship, Flash found himself securely imprisoned. There apparently was no way out. At any rate, he found some clothes and put them on, which made him feel more prepare for any emergency." Flash Gordon on the Planet Mongo.
Raymond, Alex.
Racine, Wis.: Whitman Publishing Co., 1934. 36mo. 315 pp. Spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed, shaken. Part of the Big Little Book series. Illustrated throughout... more
Price: $60.00
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