Crooked House Books & Paper

Crooked House Books & Paper Crooked House Books & Paper offers the beautiful and unusual in used and rare books and ephemera. Welcome to the page for Crooked House Books & Paper!

We are a home-based operation in Portland, Oregon offering beautiful and unusual books & ephemera from our website, multiple other online venues, local shows and in our home showroom. Our specialties include illustrated books, children's books, beautiful bindings, Pacific Northwest interest, literature, early twentieth century ephemera, and the odd & unusual. We love pop-up books & paper with moving parts, weird instructional pamphlets, Britain in Pictures, Modern Library, anything art nouveau or art deco, and so much more.

Guess the arguments have been going on since at least 1884….
08/29/2026

Guess the arguments have been going on since at least 1884….

Poor Tommy Thompson The Tom Cat!!
08/22/2026

Poor Tommy Thompson The Tom Cat!!

08/08/2026

A great frontispiece!

Someone came in last week looking for a real bookworm hole because she had never seen one. Don’t know if she followed us...
08/07/2026

Someone came in last week looking for a real bookworm hole because she had never seen one. Don’t know if she followed us on social media, but if so—this is for you! From a book printed in Boston, 1715.

Bagging paperbacks might be my new Saturday morning routine for a while. It’s kind of relaxing and it’s also fun to sort...
08/01/2026

Bagging paperbacks might be my new Saturday morning routine for a while. It’s kind of relaxing and it’s also fun to sort through all this great cover art. 😀

In theory, yes. But in practice, the question of Where To Put Books is not quite so tastefully answered.
08/01/2026

In theory, yes. But in practice, the question of Where To Put Books is not quite so tastefully answered.

Time to start packing for in October! theme this year! I kind of want glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth, but they are ha...
07/09/2026

Time to start packing for in October! theme this year! I kind of want glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth, but they are hard to talk with…

Not intended to be a horror, this gutta percha head from 1866 might once have been cute. Now it looks like a Stephen Kin...
06/20/2026

Not intended to be a horror, this gutta percha head from 1866 might once have been cute. Now it looks like a Stephen King special edition.

I love my fancy price numerals! 😀 opens today!
06/13/2026

I love my fancy price numerals! 😀 opens today!

Address

1602 NE 40th Avenue
Portland, OR
97232

Opening Hours

11am - 5pm

Telephone

+15417602040

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