Welcome to The Battered Book Shop.

 

We are an internet and "by appointment only" bookstore.  Please search or browse our inventory of hard to find, out of print, and used books.  If you can't find what you like please fill out our off-line search form and we will search our off-line inventory, other bookstores and book search services for you.

 

 

From "In Fun and In Earnest" Selected by S.E.S. - "Book Printing.  The following twenty-two occupations are engaged to produce a single book: The author, the designer, the rag merchant, the paper maker, the stationer, the type founder, the press maker, the ink maker, the roller maker, the chase maker, the reader, the compositor, the pressman, the gatherer, the folder, the stitcher, the leather seller, the binder, the coppersmith, the engraver, the copper-plate printer and the bookseller."