Revival Creek Books — rare books and art for people who love them

Roswell, Georgia · since 2026

Every book has a history. Find one worth preserving.

First editions, vintage books, and overlooked finds pulled out of estate sales and thrift shops. Examined point by point, photographed honestly, and ready for their next shelf.

Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor

Patrick Taylor · Forge, 2013. First edition, first printing. · $20
What decides itCopyright page states "First Edition: October 2013"
Forge (Tom Doherty Associates), New York, 2013, cloth in jacket
1loss/chipping to jacket at spine head, upper right cornerphoto 2
First editionsettled

On the shelf now

241 books · 1 copy eachAll of them →

Sell us your books

Estates, downsizings and single fine copies. We take the whole library, including the part nobody else wants.

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Learn to read a copyright page

The guides we wrote for ourselves: number lines, publisher marks, book-club tells, points of issue.

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Removed From Circulation — the banned books series

Sixteen library cards stamped BANNED, from Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 to To Kill a Mockingbird in 1995 — and under every stamp, the borrowing carries on anyway. Each print records the real, documented removal: who tried, when, and how the book outlasted them.

The whole series, with the history →

Not selling — just wondering what yours is worth?

Type a title or an ISBN. Free, no account, and we say plainly what we can’t tell without the book in hand.

Prices come from live listings — what copies are listed for, not what they sold for.