Revere Books of Valley Forge, PA

Revere Books has offered modern first editions since 1991 with an emphasis on American and British literary fiction and poetry and collector-interest non-fiction. Signed copies are a specialty.

A selection of authors appears on the left column. They are a few among the more than four thousand titles updated here everyday. Use the seach feature to locate authors and titles of interest.

I would guess that most collectors are familair with the quotation - in one of its many forms such as Sydney Smith's, "No furniture is so charming as books" - that any room is lovelier with books, and would nod in agreement. My first experience with this came with the paperbacks my parents gladly gave me fifty cents to buy. I lined them on my bureau and when I needed more space for them, on a shelf in my bedroom. With the books I'd read and arranged on the shelf - and rearranged by author, then by chronological order according to when they were written, then when they were read, and by favorites - the room became mine, a space unlike any other. Collecting has led to selling and in 1991 I started Revere Books. (I was living in Revere, PA and I liked the pun.) In 2003 I began to sell books fulltime. The books have been accumulating ever since the paperbacks that filled that shelf and as they have opened up a world to me, my space in it has also expanded. It is not just a room, but indeed a world that is better with books.

I'm not so sure that all bookpeople would agree with Mr. Auden's remark on the homepage. But if you have a nominee for a neglected book or an incomprehensively respected one, I'd like to know about it. Interesting comments will be posted here.