Used · rare · first editions · since 1972
A bookshop for the long-collected.
Three generations of book dealers. Twelve thousand used titles. A back room of first editions, signed copies, and books we promised someone we'd hold.
Used · rare · first editions · since 1972
Three generations of book dealers. Twelve thousand used titles. A back room of first editions, signed copies, and books we promised someone we'd hold.
The Archive was opened in 1972 by Theodore Brandt, a former librarian who couldn't stop buying books at estate sales. Today his three grandchildren run the shop. Same shelves, same back room, same general principle: keep the good stuff, sell the rest.
From a Pennsylvania estate. Rare history, fine art, and a complete run of New Yorker fiction collections.
Recently catalogued
First Editions
1926 Scribner first, second printing. Bright dust jacket, no inscriptions.
First Editions
1973 Viking first, signed (uncommon). Light shelf wear, jacket clipped.
First Editions
1957 Viking first, first state. Original jacket, foxing on edges.
Used / Cookery
1943 wartime edition, Bobbs-Merrill. Two newspaper clippings tucked inside.
Used / History
1974 Knopf first, jacket present, very good. Heavy book, packed carefully.
Rare / Plates
Hand-coloured plate, 1840s octavo edition. Framed reproduction available.
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Address
212 Brandt Lane, Old Quarter
Hours
Tue–Sat · 11am–6pm Rare room · by appointment
Reach
+1 (555) 021-1972
catalogue@thearchive.books