Kayo Books

01/31/2024

We will be open on the next SF First Thursday Art Walk this Thursday from 4 to 8 pm. Visit a number of nearby galleries and businesses too. Our new address is 907 Post Street. Come on by!

12/27/2023

Kayo Books is having an open house on Thursday, January 4th, between 4 and 8 pm. Come by the new store at 907 Post Street. Our pals Groove Merchant Records and Neil Martinson, will be playing tunes. We'll also be fundraising for our local neighborhood group, Lower Nob Hill Neighborhood Alliance https://lowernobhill.org/ While you're in the neighborhood, check out the art galleries sponsored by SF First Thursdays: Lower Polk / TL Art Walk thursday https://sffirstthursday.com/ See you then!

11/19/2023

A fond farewell to 814 Post Street our longtime home. See you at 907 Post Street in 2024.

10/10/2023

Kayo Books is having a moving sale! Until we open in January 2024 at our new location at 907 Post Street, we are having a sale at 814 Post Street,SF. All items are 25 percent off. Additional discount possible for bulk purchases. Hours are 11 to 3 Mon thru Sat but call or email to confirm in case we are between spaces. Come say goodbye to our home for the last 28 years.

02/14/2022

Just a reminder that we are open when we are at the store, or by appointment. Generally Mon to Sat 11 to 3, unless we are out of town.

09/17/2019

Just a reminder that Kayo Books is open by appointment or happenstance. We are there most days, Monday through Sat from 11 until at least 2. Call or email if you want to confirm, or just stop by if you are in the area. If we are there, we are open.

12/15/2018

Kayo Books will be open today from 11 til at least 3.

09/08/2016

Kayo Books Friends and Customers,

After 21 years we have decided to make Kayo Books open only by appointment. We will remain at our Post Street location but the layout of the space will change and a larger proportion of our business will be through mail order and select book fairs. This decision was not fueled by the crazy changes in the San Francisco real estate market, but rather the desire to remove the personal tether to a retail store. New and old customers and friends are welcome to make an appointment by email or phone. We will continue to be active buyers and traders of good books of all persuasions as well as illustration and comic artwork, comics, pulps, posters, fanzines, vintage erotica, underground newspapers, photographs, lps, rock memorabilia, and ephemera.

To make room for this change, beginning on Thursday September 8, 2016, we will be starting a massive sale. Every item in the store will be discounted by 30 percent to start, and the discount will gradually increase up to 90 percent, until the regular store hours will cease at the end of October. Come early for the best selection. Nothing in the store is being held back at the 30 percent discount level. Many of the glass case items and most of the artwork on the walls will not make it to significantly higher discount levels so keep that in mind. If you have been eyeing something in particular, let’s talk. A few fixtures may also be sold.

Please tell your friends and feel free to post details of the sale on your favorite social medial outlet.

We thank you for the years of customer loyalty, and look forward to our continued relationship in the future.

Maria and Ron

Kayo Books
814 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Thursday - Saturday 11 - 6 (Through October 2016)
(415) 749-0554
www.kayobooks.com

San Francisco bookstore specializing in vintage paperbacks from the 1940s to the 1970s and esoteric books of all persuasions.

08/19/2011

Kayo Business Card