BookBuyers.com buys and sells used books at two California locations
Title
Welcome to BookBuyers Used Books & Media
Description
Rammurti and Sita Reed opened BookBuyers in 1990, in the Old San Andreas Health Clinic building on Cowper Street in Palo Alto. Rammurti, who opened his first bookstore in 1967 in Chicago, was then the CEO of a computer retailer, and had been looking for a new opportunity a little closer to his heart. After the first few months the couple moved the store to the old Bank of America building on Emerson Street, just off University. There the store grew, adding calendars, computer books, vintage magazines, music CDs and art prints to the offerings of books, tapes and records.
After three years, the building on the corner of Emerson and University was slated to be torn down. Unable to find a landlord willing to rent a large space to a “used book store” along University, the entire shop - stock, fixtures and all - was moved into the former Hobby Shop at the old San Antonio mall which was empty and awaiting demolition. After about five months in storage, a new home in Mountain View on Castro Street was found for the store. Here we have been playing with books, happily, ever since. We hope you can join us at one of the best and largest used book stores in California. We look forward to your visit to BookBuyers Mountain View.
In response to many customer requests, Rammurti and Sita launched BookBuyers OnLine was in 2001. Offering a completely separate stock of unusual and hard-to-find items, it now lists nearly 60,000 items with Abebooks, Alibris, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. BookBuyers OnLine specializes in a wide variety of scientific, technical and academic materials with an emphasis on periodicals. In fact, BookBuyers offers more NASA related material than any other bookstore online - thanks in part to the many NASA-Ames employees who trade at our bricks-and-mortar store. We also offer collectible items in metaphysics, the occult, obscure languages, comics, and in unusual linguistic materials.
