We pay CASH for Books, Vinyl & Movies
TRADE - makes your $ go farther
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We need (buy or trade) your gently used: Books, LPs, CDs, Books on Tape, DVDs and Graphic Novels.
Prospero's is one of the few places left that will give you trade credit towards other items in stock. As a general rule, we pay significantly more than our competitors for titles we accept. But remember - condition is everything!
Music : Vintage jazz, Vintage country, Vintage punk & more...
Books & Authors :
ARAVIND ADIGA : White Tiger
ITALO CALVINO : If on a Winter's Night a Traveler -- The Baron in the Trees -- other...
MICHAEL CHABON : The Yiddish Policeman's Union -- The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay -- Maps and Legends -- Gentlemen of the Road -- The Final Solution -- others
SHIRLEY CHRISTIAN : Before Lewis & Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the Frech Dynasty the Ruled America's Frontier
PAULO COELHO : The Alchemist
JARED M. DIAMOND : Collapse -- Guns Germs & Steel -- others...
BOB DYLAN : Chronicle vol. 1
DAVID EGGARS : A Heartbreaking Work of Staggaring Genius
JAY FELDMAN : When the Mississippi Ran Backwards
MALCOM GLADWELL : Outliers -- Blink -- Tipping Point
AL GORE : The Assault on Reason
SARA GRUEN : Water for Elephants
GRAHAM HANCOCK : Fingerprints of the Gods -- Underworld -- Message of the Sphinx -- Talisman -- Supernatural -- Heaven's Mirror
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS : God is Not Great -- Why Orwell Matters -- Thomas Paine's Rights of Man -- Jefferson: Author of America -- Letter to a Young Contrarian -- Kissinger - others...
KHALED HOSSEINI : A Thousand Splendid Suns -- The Kite Runner
DORIS KEARNS : Team of Rivals
STEPHEN KING : The Gunslinger Series (note: we get a TON of King's other work)
C.S. LEWIS - Mere Christianinty -- Problem of Pain -- The Great Divorce -- Surprised by Joy -- The Space Trilogy -- Screwtape Letters -- others...
YANN MARTEL : Life of Pi
CORMAC McCARTHY : The Road -- Blood Meridian -- Sutree -- others
CHINA MIEVILLE : Perdido Street Station -- the Scar -- the Iron Council -- King Rat
CANDICE MILARD : River of Doubt
JOE MILLER : Cross X
YUKIO MISHIMA : anything
EDMUND MORRIS : Theodore Rex -- The Rise of Theodore Rex
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER : The Time Traveler's Wife
ANAIS NIN : Cities of the Interior -- Diaries -- Delta of Venus -- Spy in the House of Love -- the Minotaur -- Winter of Artifice -- House of Incest -- Little Birds - Collages -- Ladders of Fire - other
BARACK OBAMA : Dreams of my Father -- Audacity of Hope
MICHAEL POLLAN : Omnivore's Dilema -- Botany of Desire -- In Defense of Food -- A Place of My Own
DANIEL QUINN : Ishmael - My Ishmael -- Story of B
WILLILAM REDDING : Tom's Town
TERESA RODRIGUEZ : Daughters of Juarez
KURT VONNEGUT : Cat's Cradle -- Slaughterhouse Five -- Breakfast of Champions -- Bluebeard -- Sirens of Titan
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE : The Broom of the System -- Infinite Jest
CHARLES WILLIAMS : Shadows of Ecstacy -- The Greater Trumps -- All Hallows Eve -- Many Dimensions -- War in Heaven -- others
ANTON WILSON : Illuminatus trilogy -- Schrodinger's Cat trilogy -- others...
Dangerous Book for Boys and The Dangerous Book for Girls
All books by the following authors :
EDWARD ABBEY / MARCUS AURELIUS / JULIAN BARNES / MICHAEL BESCHLOSS / LOUIS BORGES / JIM CARROLL / NOAM CHOMSKY / LEONARD COHEN / E.E. CUMMINGS / BILLY COLLINS / GREGORY CORSO / DON DELILLO / DERRIDA / FOUCAULT / ALLEN GINSBERG / G.I. GURDJIEFF / HEGEL / ERNEST HEMMINGWAY / KHALED HOSSEINI / WALTER ISAACSON / C.G. JUNG / JACK KEROUAC / SOREN KIERKEGAARD / TED KOOSER / KRISHNAMURTI / FREDERICO GARCIA LORCA / H.P. LOVECRAFT / GABRIEL MARQUEZ / KARL MARX / DAVID MCCULLOUGH / EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY / HENRY MILLER / JIM MORRISON / MICHAEL MOORCOCK / NIETZSCHE / PABLO NERUDA / GEORGE ORWELL / CHUCK PAHLANIUK / AYN RAND / TOM ROBBINS / BERTRAND RUSSELL / J.D. SALINGER / DAVID SEDARIS / PATTI SMITH / WALLACE STEVENS / HUNTER S. THOMPSON / QUINCY TROUPE / WILLIAM T. VOLMANN / WITTGENSTEIN / HOWARD ZINN
Science Fiction : we are always looking for good pocket paperback science fiction. Yet, there are a few names we don't need: Asimov / Aspin / Tolkien / Star Trek / Star Wars / Arthur C. Clarke...