The Midnight Reader

The Midnight Reader The eclectic extension of The Midnight Oil Bookstore

08/23/2026

The Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair was so fun! It was great seeing so many of you! I can’t wait for the next one…👀

We found this book of verses from 1891 that represents every month of the year recently! The plates on this one is one o...
08/16/2026

We found this book of verses from 1891 that represents every month of the year recently! The plates on this one is one of our favorites recently!

What’s your favorite month in this book?

07/09/2026

Packing orders of books every morning is always fun!

Let us know if there’s any books you guys want to see hit our shelves!

07/03/2026

This is a great example of when an amazing vintage book isn’t rare because of its age. It’s always fun to run into books like this one, that even if they aren’t rare they are still fun to handle.

We can’t seem to shake our addiction to vintage paperbacks. So here’s a handful of our favorites to hit the shelves the ...
07/02/2026

We can’t seem to shake our addiction to vintage paperbacks. So here’s a handful of our favorites to hit the shelves the past week!

Some books you pick up and just hold for a while.First edition. Sherlock Holmes. The original Sidney Paget illustrations...
06/24/2026

Some books you pick up and just hold for a while.

First edition. Sherlock Holmes. The original Sidney Paget illustrations inside. Fun typo on the last page.

We haven't bought it yet. Probably won't this time. But handling it reminded us exactly why we got into this.

Midnight Reader is growing and the books we're chasing are getting better.

06/05/2026

This vintage paperback from 1958 tells us so much! Often times the binding and art of a book can reveal information that’s easy to overlook.

This is just one example of information we like share about vintage books and book collecting!

Here’s a handful of modern first editions that went on the site today! Can you tell we like it darker?
05/31/2026

Here’s a handful of modern first editions that went on the site today!

Can you tell we like it darker?

Here’s a handful of some of the odd pamphlets and magazines to infiltrate our shelves recently. We are about a third of ...
05/18/2026

Here’s a handful of some of the odd pamphlets and magazines to infiltrate our shelves recently.

We are about a third of the way through a recent collection we got in, and hope to see some more odd ones.

05/14/2026

Here’s a modern library edition with its dust jacket! We’ve been getting more of these in lately, and I love talking about the dust jackets themselves!

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