Used book collections · Estates · Academic libraries
Give Your Books Another Life
Books outlive the shelves they begin on. Aftershelf acquires used books and personal libraries, identifies books worth preserving or reselling, and helps them find their next readers.
Whether you have a few boxes of books, a personal library, an academic collection, or books inherited from a family member, we can help.
Most ordinary collections can simply be transferred to us. Collections containing significant resale value may qualify for a consignment arrangement.
Our shelves
We're especially interested in
We take a wide range of material, but these are the subjects that tend to find eager readers.
See everything we look for →- 01Literature and poetry
- 02Philosophy
- 03History
- 04Humanities
- 05University press books
- 06Foreign-language books
- 07Art and architecture
- 08Religion and theology
- 09Regional and local history
- 10Scholarly and academic collections
- 11Unusual, specialized, or out-of-print books
- 12Signed, collectible, or historically interesting books
A reassurance
Not sure whether your books are valuable?
That's fine. Most people aren't. We can look through photographs or inspect a collection and determine whether it makes sense as an ordinary collection or whether some books deserve special treatment.
Send us photographsBooks are meant to have more than one life.
Send a few photographs. We'll take it from there.