An online antiquarian and scholarly bookstore
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About LEAVES
LEAVES is a small, independent, antiquarian and scholarly bookshop located in Sterling, Massachusetts.
We sell used, rare, out-of-print, unusual, or sometimes simply nice, books, media & ephemera.
For now, sales are by web, e-mail, phone or snail mail.
In-shop browsing is not available.
Our specialties are:
Crafts
(
pottery
,
woodworking
,
book
and
paper
arts,
glassworking
,
metalworking
, etc.)
Art
(
drawing
,
painting
,
printmaking
,
sculpture
)
Photography
Architecture
Gardening
and
landscaping
Music
and
musical instruments
(
guitar
,
harpsichord
,
lute
)
Nature
and
Science
(
astronomy
,
botany
,
biology
,
ecology
,
meteorology
,
paleontology
, etc.)
Travel
and
Exploration
(
mountains
,
rivers
,
coasts
,
archaeology
,
anthropology
, etc.)
Technical books (
computer science
,
mathematics
,
optics
, etc.)
Unusual
cookbooks
Artist's books
There is a tendency towards nicely-illustrated books in any genre.
(The proprietor - an artist & photographer - has a visual orientation.)
Our Terms
Payment is accepted via check or money order in US funds,
or via credit card
( MasterCard and VISA, through ABE;
those plus American Express and Discover, through Biblio or PayPal;
those and Diner's Club, or debit cards, through Amazon
).
Massachusetts residents will be charged an additional 5% state sales tax.
Orders paid by credit card will ship within 2 days.
Shipment may be delayed pending arrival and validation of checks or money orders.
(Therefore payment by credit card, through PayPal, ABE or Biblio, is recommended.)
Books are returnable (with prior notice) for any reason within 30 calendar days of delivery,
if in the same condition as received.
The buyer is responsible for shipping costs unless the return resulted from a seller error.
Contacting Us
LEAVES can be contacted in several ways.
The preferred method, by e-mail
(leaves at appletreeimaging dot com),
avoids telephone tag.
If you must contact us by phone, the number is 978-302-6696.
Leave a message on voicemail and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Contact by snailmail is the slowest, most expensive, and therefore least recommended method.
If you wish, though, you may write us at
5 Hawkins Lane, Sterling, MA 01564, USA.
Couldn't find what you were looking for in our own inventory above?
Try the link below.
Abebooks claims to list over 70 million books from 13,000 shops.
Couldn't find it on Abebooks either? Even so, it still might be on Biblio.
They are growing and now list over 30 million books from 3400 bookshops.
They also have a particularly nice and full-featured search portal. Definitely worth a try.
Click on the banner below.
Didn't find it on Abebooks or Biblio? Is what you are looking for rare, scarce or antiquarian in nature? Are you located in the European market? In any of these cases you might wish to check out Antiqbook . While their database is much smaller (about 3.8 million books from about 400 vendors) it is well presented and of high quality.
Abebooks and Biblio are strongly recommended for finding older and rarer books. Nobody has yet beat Abebooks for sheer breadth and depth of inventory. Biblio, while smaller, has the nicest interface, and makes a commendable effort to highlight their rare book holdings and make them more accessible for searching and browsing.
We also suggest Antiqbook as a small but worthwhile venue for higher-end books.
After these search engines, there are a number of "second-tier" possibilities: Alibris, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. These emphasize newer and more common books (on which, though, they often have lower prices).
Couldn't find what you were looking for on Abebooks or Biblio? Well, with 50 million books, there's a good chance it's on Alibris.
Try their simple search form below.
Eluded you on Alibris too? Well, it could be listed on Amazon.
You never know. Try the search form below.
Searched Amazon and still no joy? You might find it at Barnes & Noble...
Wazzat den?
As you browse bookselling sites, it can seem like booksellers speak a strange language.
Sometimes they do. However, courtesy of the
Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA),
you can grok at least some of what they say.
We particularly urge you to look at the terms for book condition,
as we use them to describe our own books.
IOBA: Terms used by booksellers to describe BOOK CONDITION
IOBA: Terms used by booksellers to describe BOOKS IN GENERAL
It's a two-way street!
We are most happy to sell you a book.
However, we might entertain the notion of a transaction the other way around.
After all, to keep selling books, we do occasionally have to buy them too.
If you have books you'd like to sell to us, go
HERE
to find out what we need to know about them and what you can to do to make that happen.
We don't promise we'll always be in buying mode, but if you follow these directions,
you'll have a leg up on the work you need to do to sell your books to any bookdealer.
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