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 movi

ng parts, weird instructional pamphlets, Britain in Pictures, Modern Library, anything art nouveau or art deco, and so much more.

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!

Tommy Thompson the Tomcat is not sure he likes this whole sidewalk sale business, but some humans have been appreciative...
06/06/2026

Tommy Thompson the Tomcat is not sure he likes this whole sidewalk sale business, but some humans have been appreciative of our 50-cent books.

Bruno is ready to help unload boxes for our sidewalk sale tomorrow! 50 cents per book. Cheap! Plus 50% everything under ...
06/05/2026

Bruno is ready to help unload boxes for our sidewalk sale tomorrow! 50 cents per book. Cheap! Plus 50% everything under $100 inside. Also cheap! Friday & Saturday 11-5. Be sure to check out all of the amazing events happening during because there might be something *almost* as good as our sale!

This Friday & Saturday we are bringing back a Crooked House favorite—the sidewalk sale! 50 cents each. Modern books, kid...
06/01/2026

This Friday & Saturday we are bringing back a Crooked House favorite—the sidewalk sale! 50 cents each. Modern books, kids books, cookbooks, weird nonfiction, much more. Plus 50% off all books inside under $100. Plus FREE cat observation and/or petting if they deem you worthy of either—we have 3.5 cats but no promises on sightings….

Address

1602 NE 40th Avenue
Portland, OR
97232

Opening Hours

11am - 5pm

Telephone

+15417602040

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