Owl Creek Books

09/05/2026

“My library shelves are the avenues of time.” Archbishop of Poitiers, ca. 1100.

08/24/2026

Check out the RECENTLY ADDED tab to view these items and more.
https://owlcreekbooks.com/recently-added/

08/21/2026

08/16/2026

With the SoCal Chapter of ABAA viewing the world's largest pop-up book, Luceros y Penumbras, at Los Angeles Central Library. Tour led by Todd Lerew, Curator and Director of Special Projects, Library Foundation of Los Angeles. Special gratitude to Jen and Alex for coordinating, Todd for sharing this creation, and the Library Foundation for welcoming us.

08/15/2026

Saturday plans: Your local antiquarian bookstore. Find the wild things and the tame things, too.

08/07/2026

The bookstore will be open today, despite the internet outage. However, processing and shipping of online orders may be delayed by a day.

08/06/2026

Coming soon! A few items that will be appearing on the website beginning next week. Stay tuned. Novels, poetry, theory of relativity, and more.

07/31/2026

Is it okay for AI to consume and destroy mass amounts of books to train their models?

07/30/2026

Have you read all of these books? No. Antiquarian booksellers hear this question from time to time. In the words of Arthur Schopenhauer, “To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”

07/14/2026

Kipling poems in bold orange and gilt publisher's cloth binding. The Seven Seas. Rudyard Kipling. New York: D. Appleton, 1897. First American Edition. Marigold cloth covered boards with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Only very slight rubbing at head and tail. Unusually bright and clean. Bottom right edge of front board bumped approx. 1/2 in. 8vo (crown octavo), 209 pp., blank [1], advertisements [6]. Near Fine. A beautiful book.