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

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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 quickly
  • 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

  • The Value of an Inscription

    Recently I’ve been learning more about autographs, inscriptions, and association copies. I ordered a few reference books, including Autographs: A Key to Collecting by Mary A. Benjamin. In spite of being first published in 1946, it’s still considered a foundational text. The copy I received from ThriftBooks had seen better days. The dust jacket was tattered, so…

  • 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…

  • 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…