About those extra deals... -- SOLD, BULK SALE

When you come to the shop, make sure to visit the books in our back hall (the entrance across from Salena's).  There you'll find books sale priced at $1 and also 50 cents. 

The dollar books include a number of publisher's overstock titles, including many cookbooks, all new and ideal for gifts, also a wide range of theology hardcover ex-libs including hard-to-find titles.  For 50 cents we're offering the paperbacks in the theology collection.  Just a little "something extra" for the holiday sale!

Attention Civil War/Abraham Lincoln aficionados

Just into our biography section...Carl Sandburg's four-volume set of Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. This collection, priced at $30.00, features hundreds of photographs, maps, cartoons of the day, letters and other documents. A fascinating holiday gift for that history buff on your list, or just for yourself.  And you thought Carl Sandburg was only a poet!   ***SOLD***

Thank you, News 10 NBC!

News 10 NBC gave us some nice coverage for the opening of our Holiday Half-Price Sale, coinciding with National Small Business Saturday.

You can read and see their story here, and don't forget that our sale runs through Dec. 18 and we'll be continuing to stock new book selections at half price right through that date.

Rochester's favorite golfer... times 24!

We just received a large donation of publisher's overstock titles, and among them is Lopez On Golf by Rochester's favorite golfer, Nancy Lopez, winner of the Rochester International LPGA tournament in 1978. 1980, and 1981.  We have 24 copies of this hardcover book, written in 1987 (this is the UK edition of 1988), priced right for gift-giving at $4 a copy.  You can find them tucked under the holiday books table across from the Sports section.

Small Business Saturday: make plans now!

Black Friday's the day for killer deals at big retailers, and Cyber Monday's the day for on-line steals, but this year there's a new shopper-tunity in the mix, and that's National Small Business Saturday, Nov. 27.

The Houghton Book Shop is doing its part!  Our annual Holiday Half Price Sale kicks off that day, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., with everything in the shop on sale, almost all at half price.  Plus, our back hall is full of books in boxes that will be at a special discount TBA. 

We encourage you to also shop our Village Gate neighbor stores, the entire Neighborhood of the Arts, and the other bookstores that belong to the Rochester Antiquarian Book Dealers Association (list available from our shop).

Watch the blog for more details about our upcoming sale!  See you soon!

Great. Cheap. Gifts.

Hoping to emerge from the holiday season free of burdensome credit card bills?  We're a great source for inexpensive gifts for the readers on your list.  Our donated books come in various conditions, including virtually new.  They also come in "hard to find".  We literally have something for everyone.  Check us now for the biggest selection (we're overflowing with year-end donations) or wait just a bit for unbelievable prices during our upcoming half-price sale.  We'll also be offering gift certificates in any denomination (cash purchase only).  Details coming soon.  Ho ho ho!

For tweens and teens

We have 40 volumes of the ValueTales series by Ann Donegan Johnson. These delightful stories "use a real-life person to exemplify an important value and are suitable for children in the late elementary years". Our set includes the stories of Mother Theresa, Thomas Jefferson, Beethoven, Jackie Robinson, Cesar Chavez, Lucille Ball, and many others.  You can find them in our Children's section at $1.75 each.

Sold on ABEbooks in October

The Bumper Book, a beautiful oversized children's picture book edited by Watty Piper and illustrated by Eulalie, and The Hidden Years at Nazareth, a sermon by G. Campbell Morgan.  Use the link at right to visit our ABEbooks page.