Bonfire Bookshop

09/04/2026

📰 Free copies of the new issue of the
literary newspaper The Brooklyn Rail
can be picked up…

📚 at One Wood Place!
(by appointment)

☕ or Rise & Grind Cafe Fitchburg!
🛍️ or Fitchburg Public Market!

✨ While supplies last. 
 

09/02/2026

📚 The books are all unpacked...
📖 The shelves are filling up...

🔥 We’re opening this fall.

Sign up for our mailing list
for an invite to our
Sneak Peek Week.

🔗 Link in bio via Linktree or go directly to:

bit.ly/bonfirelist
.. And we’d welcome a few kind words for staffer Pete, who worked hard all day to master Instagram Reels so we can enter the video age with our bookmongering. 🎥📚

This is their first Reel, and we think they killed it. 👏

08/28/2026

Newly listed: New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, a 1998 hardcover anthology of Lovecraftian horror from Golden Gryphon Press. Yours for $27.

Eighteen contributors including Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber, Ron Goulart, and Robert Charles Wilson offer their own excursions into H.P. Lovecraft’s enduring of ancient evils, forbidden knowledge, cosmic entities, and humanity’s precarious place in an incomprehensibly larger universe.

The collection opens, appropriately, with the “Great Invocation,” attributed to the fictional occultist Friedrich von Junzt and his equally fictional Unaussprechlichen Kulten, the "Black Book" or "Unnamed Cults." We’ve pictured the FULL invocation here for those inclined to chant it aloud at their own risk... We are, after all, entering here in .

Available with curbside delivery in the Fitchburg area, USPS shipping at Media Mail rates, or scheduled pickup at One Wood Place. Comment below or send a DM for more information or to reserve.

DETAILS:
Published: 1998
Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pagination: 411 pages
ISBN: 9780965590174

Condition: Good to Very Good, ex-library. Dark teal cloth over boards; bright dust jacket protected in Mylar. Library markings and some discoloration to the pastedowns; pages clean and binding sound.

Online at
bonfirebookshop.com/
products/
eternal-lovecraft

08/25/2026

“Cahoots broker” is an anagram for “bookstore arch.” We’re finishing the loading-in of our shelves and adding finishing touches like this ornamental book feature, as we prepare for autumn ribbon-cutting. Join our mailing list to be invite to our week-long friends-and-family preview event before the grand opening. Kudos to staffer Aly for her book architecture prowess!

08/05/2026

New in the shop: a scarce first edition of Ben Mazer’s chapbook Johanna Poems, issued by Cy Gist 2007. Yours for $65.

An early Mazer collection from Boston’s erudite, neo-bohemian, learned literary scene of the early 2000s. Contains 14 poems on cream stock, sewn through the fold and bound in green wrappers with a contrasting lime-green inner wrapper. Cover illustration by the author.

This book was launched at a 2007 Harvard Square reading with Stephen Sturgeon, sponsored by the Grolier Poetry Bookshop. Sturgeon’s exuberant endorsement appears on the rear cover; visit this listing on the Bookshop website to read that blurb in its entirety.

Available for local delivery, Media Mail shipping, or scheduled shop pickup. DM to reserve, or comment below.

07/15/2026

UPDATE: This item has sold.

New in the shop: a handsome 1985 hardcover edition of Kahlil Gibran’s Sand and Foam. Yours for $25.

First published in 1926, Sand and Foam is Gibran’s celebrated collection of aphorisms, parables, and poetic reflections on love, beauty, solitude, friendship, faith, freedom, and the contradictions of human nature. Written with the author’s characteristic blend of spiritual insight and lyrical simplicity, its compact observations are meant to be read slowly and revisited often.

Available with curbside delivery in the Fitchburg area, USPS shipping at Media Mail rates, or scheduled pickup at the new shop location. Comment below or send a DM to request more information or ask that the book be placed on reserve for you.

The volume is copiously ornamented and includes seven illustrations “reproduced from original drawings by the author.”

DETAILS:
- Published: 1985
- Printing: Thirty-seventh
- Publisher: Knopf
- Format: Hardcover with jacket
- Binding: Black boards with gilt lettering and ornament
- Condition: Very Good

Bright, clean pages and a tight binding. The dust jacket is clean and intact, not price clipped, and protected in mylar.

06/25/2026

As we continue to open cartons, sort books, and price items for the shelves, we’re increasingly excited about our Opening Day inventory. There’s some great stuff waiting for you. Of the approximately 15,000 books we estimate we will have ‘on the floor’ when we open for business, here are six from this morning’s sorting. Available for purchase now with in-person pickup or media mail shipping. Leave a comment or send a DM to reserve anything you want to buy.

Apostles, $25
Dudes, $11
Co-operative, $27
Racconti, $9
Beast, $17
Sartre, $13

06/18/2026

Pictured: the crew members who sang sea shanties today as they painted shelves where the books can hang out before being adopted and taken to their new homes. We’re creeping closer hour by hour to announcing the opening date for our in …

06/11/2026

06/10/2026

Glamour shots from our shop-in-progress. Ask questions if you’ve got ‘em, friends, and if you see a book you’re interested in, let us know. We’re in the booksellin’ business, ya know?