Legacy Used Books

06/27/2025

Aaahhh - summer reading!
Bookstore summer hours:
12-5 on Thursdays
11-5 on Fridays and Saturdays
11-3 on Sundays and Mondays
And we'll be open on Friday, July 4th, from 11 to 3.

02/07/2025

Open today till 5, tomorrow (Saturday) 11am-5pm. Closed Sunday 9th though. Sorry for any disappointment!

12/20/2024

Uh-oh, it's officially time for winter hours:
Open Fri 20th until 5, Sat 21st 11-5, Sun 22nd 12-4.
Then closed until Jan 3rd!!
--->>> January-April hours:

10/13/2024

The leaves are blowing right into the store! Fall hours begin on October 15th:
12-5 Thu-Fri
11-5 Sat
12-4 Sun
Open tomorrow, Monday, October 14th.
Closed Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 28th.
Extended hours may be added between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Contact me if these hours don't suit your schedule - I can usually come earlier or stay a bit later if I have a day's notice.

08/09/2024

06/23/2024

Summer reading means no rules!
Store hours for a happy summer of books, rain or shine:
Thursdays 12-5
Fridays and Saturdays 11-5
Sundays and Mondays 12-4
Open Thu July 4th, 12-3
And remember School's Out Saturdays are going all summer long: Buy one and get one free if you are under 18 and choose your own books!

05/04/2024

Children's Book Week through May 12th -
No Rules! Just Read!
Buy one and get one free if you're under 18 and choose your own books. (lower priced book is the free one)
Open Fri 12-5, Sat 11-5, Sun 12-4.

03/11/2024

Facebook no longer allows me to share my Instagram posts to this page. Follow me on Instagram if you can, because I probably won't post here on FB much in future. In the meantime, stop by this weekend to find your tiny lucky fortune, all weekend in celebration of St Patrick's Day.

02/17/2024

"All huncamunca and fahdoodle," he mused. (Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1871-1958)
A delightful find! Charming tales, reminiscent of Twain's, but featuring 19th century folk along the Erie Canal. Grandfather's "deliberate anachronisms" of language and Adams's gimlet eye make for fun reading.
Adams was a journalist and a muckraker, known for exposing public health injustices of the time. A prolific novelist as well, he also wrote "risque" fiction - under the pseudonym Warner Fabian - about flappers and their jazz age antics. Several of these were later made into movies.
Vintage 1955 hardcover, very good condition, $12.

02/09/2024

Her eyes were bottomless wells that led to the permafrost of her soul. (Helene Tursten)
A small book with a killer collection of stories about an elderly Swede who finds creative ways to make her problems, whether neighbors or strangers, go away. Fun and quick read! Hardcover, very good condition, $7.

01/27/2024

Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying. (Donald Hall, 1928-2018)
Who knew? In 1972 our beloved New Hampshire poet and U.S. Poet Laureate, Donald Hall, published 26 ribald limericks in an X-***ed alphabet book. Victorian-style suggestive ink drawings by Harvey Kornberg feature lots of corsets, garters, and plump flesh. It's possible that Hall didn't consider this his finest work - it's not even listed in his extensive bibliography on Wikipedia. From Aphrodisiac to Zo*****ia, this is a remarkable addition to the 300-year-old tradition of risque rhymes. First edition hardcover, like-new condition, $30.