Professional Book Acquisition and Removal
When a wall of books is standing between you and your next chapter, we buy them all, clear the room, and get out of your way.
CHAPEL HILL • DURHAM • RALEIGH
FAIR OFFERS
RAPID REMOVAL
BOOKS REHOMED
Simple, Fast, and Complete
Typically 20 percent or less of books are purchased at an estate sale, and the rest have to be hauled away.
- We purchase the entire lot at a fair price
- We box and load everything prior to your sale
- We leave the room clear within a few hours.
Reach out at [email protected] to arrange a walkthrough before your next sale.
Each Book Has A Next Chapter
Families can be confident knowing that the books don’t just disappear. They move on to scholars, seminarians, professionals, and collectors who will put them back to work. And a portion of every collection we handle helps us fund literacy programs here in the Triangle
Here’s a recent example of how we work.
Ready to talk? Reach out at [email protected] and we’ll take it from there.
Recent Finds
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The Value of an Inscription
When the Book Itself Is the Story There’s a version of rare book collecting that’s almost purely numerical. A first edition of The Great Gatsby matters because it was one of a specific number printed in 1925, because Fitzgerald’s name appears on the title page, because bibliographers have documented its points and issue sequence for a century.…
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Bruce Onobrakpeya and a Greensboro Civil Rights Artist
The Convergence of Nigerian Modernism and African-American Artistic Life I’m a frequent shopper at McKay’s bookstore in Mebane, North Carolina, and earlier this year, an oversized art book caught my eye. It was a monograph on the Nigerian modernist printmaker Bruce Onobrakpeya, published in 2002 by the Ford Foundation. The dust jacket was clean, the…
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A Book That Carried a Minister’s Gift
How one estate library revealed a sixty-year chain of Southern Baptist ministerial life, and where it goes from here. How it began Earlier this year, I acquired a bulk lot of books from the estate of a retired Durham, North Carolina minister. On the surface, it was exactly the kind of working ministerial library you’d…