Scholarly Books Bought and Sold Since 1961
Established in 1961 by John T. Zubal, Zubal Books offers an outstanding selection of used and antiquarian titles. This Web site provides access to one of the largest collections of out-of-print titles available on the Internet.
The Zubal Books warehouse maintains close to 5,000,000 volumes of scholarly and rare books in the fields of Literary Criticism & Biography, History, Philosophy, Science, Anthropology & Archaeology, Religion, Historiography, Linguistics, Occult and Fiction.
What's New
Travel Journal - April 2010
Mike is on a mission to purchase books in San Fransico.
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Travel Journal - Updated - Act 4
The next report as Tom and friends set out to purchase quality books.
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New Online Rare Book Room
Our new online rare book room! Inside you will find scarce titles in all
fields including illustrated books, first editions, the sciences, history, and periodicals.
Travel Journal - Act 1 September 2009
Perhaps the most interesting part of my job is traveling around the country and meeting various people who have libraries that they want to sell. My most recent trip was to the Los Angeles area to potentially purchase six different collections of varying sizes.
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Anthony Bourdain Visits Zubal Books
Anthony Bourdain visited us on what was probably the coldest day in January 2007. Our good friend Harvey Pekar, creator of real-life comic American Splendor, felt it important that the Travel Channel personality spend a few hours with us. That meant an hour-long tour through what is mostly unheated warehouse, where large portions of our stock are shelved. Besides Harvey, Bourdain was accompanied by his producer, three cameramen, and writer Michael Ruhlman. Ultimately the three-hour taping was distilled into a five-minute segment of the Cleveland episode of No Reservations.
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