Books on Bay

Books on Bay Spectacular Vintage Books 1600s to 1900s Books on Bay provides a unique shopping experience for book lovers.
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Tucked away in a small building on West Bay Street below The Attic Antiques, the shop has thousands of books ranging from the 1600s to the late 1900s. Categories include both the traditional (Mystery, Religious) and the whimsical (Authors You Should Recognize, Heaving Bosom Books). All of the favorites are there—Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, Dick & Jane, Zane Grey, The Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, Dorothy and Toto, and more! Books on Bay is open daily at 10 am, so you can stop by any day of the week!

Wowee!!!!! The bookstore’s name is now registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office!
07/19/2026

Wowee!!!!!

The bookstore’s name is now registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office!

Wowee!!!!! Our name is now registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office!
07/17/2026

Wowee!!!!!

Our name is now registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office!

Just when you think you’ve seen everything in the Nancy Drew world, life comes along and says, “Hold my Lilac Inn tea!”I...
07/12/2026

Just when you think you’ve seen everything in the Nancy Drew world, life comes along and says, “Hold my Lilac Inn tea!”

I had never heard of stack poetry until Erik Schurink came into the shop and asked to see some Nancy Drew books. He said a friend challenged him to write a stack poem using Nancy Drew books.

Huh? A stack poem?

Well, turns out it’s a legitimate form of poetry. In a nutshell, in stack poetry (also called book spine poetry), a person uses book titles to create lines of poetry.

I told him I wasn’t sure it could be done with Nancy Drew titles because he said it worked best when a verb was in the titles, but I gave him a list of the original 56 ND titles and let him look through all the series books in the bookstore.

He left about 3 hours later with lists of other series titles and pictures of lots of books he found on the shelves.

He came back the next day. Using the name “Drew” as a verb, along with some titles from The Dana Girls, The Hardy Boys, and random books he saw in the shop, he had created a pretty darned good poem. (See pictures of the “stack” of books and the poem.)

How about you? Are you game to try your hand at this with series titles? I’d love to see what you come up with.

Gloria’s 10-year quest that began in Alaska and Wyoming ended today!First buying the books herself, then with the help o...
03/19/2026

Gloria’s 10-year quest that began in Alaska and Wyoming ended today!

First buying the books herself, then with the help of relatives who traveled far and wide, Gloria built her collection book by book. With every purchase and gift—all found in the wild—she smiled as the number grew over the years.

Well, today was the day! We were honored to share her extra, extra special smile when she found the last two Nancy Drew books to complete her 1-56 collection.

Congratulations, Gloria!!

Look who’s celebrating her 14th birthday with Trixie, Honey, and the rest of the Bob-Whites—What a perfectly perfect thi...
03/15/2026

Look who’s celebrating her 14th birthday with Trixie, Honey, and the rest of the Bob-Whites—

What a perfectly perfect thing to do! Happy Birthday, Maddie!!

Did you see that massive fireworks display in DC a little while back??Turns out, it was the City welcoming back Sophia a...
02/17/2026

Did you see that massive fireworks display in DC a little while back??

Turns out, it was the City welcoming back Sophia after she completed her Nancy Drew collection!
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Hours apart, Arya (l) and Stephanie (r) began their ND collecting adventures by buying their first ND books. What a grea...
02/15/2026

Hours apart, Arya (l) and Stephanie (r) began their ND collecting adventures by buying their first ND books.

What a great day in the Nancy Drew world!

Nathan’s parents just gave him a complete vintage Hardy Boys set.Don’t you know he’s going to love this picture when he ...
02/03/2026

Nathan’s parents just gave him a complete vintage Hardy Boys set.

Don’t you know he’s going to love this picture when he grows up!
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What a great day this has been! Great weather and great people—like Brian—who stopped by while enjoying walking around S...
01/06/2026

What a great day this has been! Great weather and great people—like Brian—who stopped by while enjoying walking around Savannah’s sunny, low-70s temperature.

In addition to being a PR guru in Pennsylvania, Brian is a mega collector of vintage children’s series books. His favorites are the favorites of many of us, including Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Dana Girls, and Bobbsey Twins. In fact, he is a third-generation Nancy Drew fan and has inherited the books once owned (and loved) by his mother and grandmother.

Welcome to the South, Brian—it was fun talking series books with you!

At age 9, Jack knows more about The Hardy Boys series than 95% of the collectors who’ve come into the shop.He and his pa...
12/07/2025

At age 9, Jack knows more about The Hardy Boys series than 95% of the collectors who’ve come into the shop.

He and his parents stopped by the shop today so he could add three more dust-jacketed books to his growing collection. Almost immediately, he totally amazed me with his knowledge. You name the topic, he pretty much knew a lot about it, and we had a great time talking about all things Hardy Boys.

Turns out, though, one area he didn’t know about was the red shield, so I showed him a red cover book (no dust jacket) and a tan cover book with the shield on the dust jacket spine.

Can you picture his reaction? Oh yes. He was grinning ear to ear.

But . . . that was nothing compared to how happy he was a few minutes later when his parents surprised him with that red shield dust jacketed book as an early present!

Ah, to be a 9-year-old Hardy Boys fan named Jack this Christmas . . .
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224 W Bay Street
Savannah, GA
31401

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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+19123986222

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