The Dusty Bookshelf

Books bought, sold, and exchanged

buy

• Over 70,000 titles on any subject you can imagine in our two stores.

• More than 30,000 rare books listed online.

• If we don't have a book you are looking for, we are always happy to give you a call or e-mail when it comes through.

• Our books are priced to please. Mass market paperbacks are priced at half their original cover price. You will find the price on hardcovers and trade paperbacks in the top corner of the first blank page.

• Our stores are divided by subject and alphabetized by author's last name.

• Each store has a special section or room dedicated to children's books where your child can pull one of thousands of books off the shelf.

sell

• We love to buy your books!

• Bring in anything from new fiction titles to cookbooks, art, psychology, kids' books, and everything in between.

• We buy high-quality books on topics or by authors that are in demand and we decide what to buy based on condition and what we have in stock at the time.

• However, we do not buy encyclopedia sets, Reader's Digest condensed books, ex-library books, magazines, or videos.

• Our book-buying hours vary by day and by store, so it doesn't hurt to call ahead of time to make sure someone will be there to take a look at your books.

Trade

• One of our favorite things to do is trades!

• When you bring in a batch of books to sell, you'll get half of what we will sell the book for in store credit.

• So, bring us your books, be it one or one hundred, and we'll give you store credit so you can refill those bookshelves at home without spending a penny.

Bargain books

If you've walked past our storefronts lately, you may have noticed sale carts flanking our front doors. Every book on those carts is $2.00 or under.

And you'll also find a bunch of really cool $1.00 comics  out there, too. You can find classics like Spiderman and Batman as well as some of lesser known comics.

Scholarly libraries

We buy scholarly libraries. Please contact us if you have a large estate or library and would like us to look through it.

Literary calendar

Each month, The Dusty Bookshelf collects the community literary events spanning Manhattan, Lawrence, Topeka, and Kansas City into one literary calendar. Here, you can find the date, time, and location of the major literary events in Northeast Kansas.

Pick up the current month's calendar at either Dusty Bookshelf location, find it on our Facebook page, or you can download it here.

If you have or know of a literary event coming up, please contact us so we can potentially add it to the calendar.

Music and books

From time to time, fantastic musicians reverberate the bookshelves in the Manhattan store. Ever heard of the Golden Shoulders, Margo May, or Bobby Birdman? Yep, they've all played here.

Check out the upcoming shows on our Facebook page.