For estate liquidators, executors and families
We’ll take the whole library. Including the part nobody wants.
Most book buyers cherry-pick the forty good ones and leave you with nine boxes and a dumpster problem. We price the good ones properly, and we clear the rest.
Send photographs of the shelves
Spines are enough — the shelves as they stand, no sorting. We reply the same day with a range on anything we can see. Roswell, Georgia; we travel across metro Atlanta and north Georgia.
Email them to info@revivalcreekbooks.com
What we buy
- Hardcovers before 1980, especially with jackets
- Signed or inscribed copies, any subject
- University press and scholarly runs
- Art, photography and architecture
- Military and regional history
- Complete author collections and estate libraries
What we’ll still haul
- Book-club editions and reading copies
- Paperback overflow
- Encyclopedias and condensed sets
- The boxes in the basement nobody has opened
We can’t pay for these, but we take them with the rest so the room is empty when we leave. Damp or mould-damaged books we have to decline.
What we cannot sell, we donate — to a library or a charity such as Goodwill — and we keep the record of what went where.
Send photographs and a rough location
Broad shelf photographs as the shelves stand, and the town. No list, no sorting, no account. Email them or use the form below.
A preliminary range, and a candid view
We reply the same day with a range on what we can see, and we say which books may matter and which will not. If it is not for us, we say so and suggest who to call.
A visit, a pickup, or a closer look
Where the photographs warrant it, we arrange to come and see the books, or to collect them. Nobody drives anywhere on a guess.
The library is handled, not cherry-picked
We look at every book on site, confirm the offer, pay on the spot, and load out the same visit. The good books and the rest.
What a photograph cannot settle
- A spine tells us the title, the publisher and roughly the decade. It does not tell us the printing: that is decided by the copyright page, which needs the book open.
- Jackets, inscriptions, foxing, damp and a loose hinge are invisible from across the room, and condition decides most of the value.
- So the range is a range. It firms up when we see the books, and the offer is made on the copies, not on the photographs.
The reason we can take the tail is that we already have a route for it. That is also why the offer on the good books is higher than it would be otherwise.