Longfellows Books

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Welcome to the website for Longfellows Books, one of the oldest bookstores and best small bookstores in a city of bibliophiles- Portland, Oregon. This is our 30th year in the business and the store has been owned and operated by Jon Hagen for 30 of those years. Jon is a life-long resident of Portland and his son Nile- born and raised on Division St.- is now actively helping to run the store. Jon and Nile are the only people you will be dealing with when you contact us and we have been successfully selling used and rare books and magazines online for the last 7 years. We have a basement full of rare and collectible magazines and we have recently begun buying and selling decorative pieces as well as vintage photography, thus we have a huge collection of decorative magazine covers from as far back as the turn of the 19th century, along with a solid collection of unique, one of a kind ephemera and paper items, many relating to Portland and the Pacific Northwest. Please contact us for more information about such things as none of the decorative pieces, photographs or magazines are listed here, however you can see some of our magazine covers at www.vintagemagazineart.com

As we mentioned, we are an independent bookstore specializing in quality used books, magazines, sheet music and ephemera, with our areas of expertise being first editions, quality literature, Pacific Northwest History, the classics and the social sciences. The store was opened in 1981 on Milwaukee Avenue in SE Portland, Oregon and has been in its present location for more than 20 years. We are proud to be able to say that we have been featured as a "Willamette Week" pick of the year and in their 2009 annual Finder issue of the best shops and restaurants in the city and surrounding area. We have also been listed in the "Best Places" series of books for Portland and the Pacific Northwest four times in the last 9 years and are very proud to announce that we have been selected as one of their favorite/Best Places for the 2010-11 edition. We are very serious about our business and specialize in rare books and magazines, but also have a solid selection of quality literature and the social sciences for those simply looking for something engaging to read.

If you aren't able to visit us in person, please browse our inventory of books and magazines, including rare, antiquarian and out of print titles. We presently have more than 7,000 books online and are shooting to reach 10,000 listed in the future. This is in addition to our collections of collectible sheet music and magazines. Please take the time to browse our stock and if you have any questions don't hesitate to contact us. As a small online retailer we hope that you feel totally comfortable with the idea of ordering from us. We understand that ordering anything off of the internet can be anxiety inducing, and we all have enough of that to go around these days so we assure you that we take the utmost care when it comes to protecting your information and making sure that our customers are completely satisfied with their orders. We have been selling our books online for more than 7 years via other websites, and opened this online storefront in September 2006, so we do have a lot of experience. We have a secure credit card processing service, pack and ship our own books, and are always available to answer any questions you may have regarding the site or our stock. Lastly, we are happy to accept payment via PAYPAL so if you would prefer to pay via that method please feel free to contact us via email and we will be happy to arrange things.

We also welcome you to visit our blog at http://www.longfellowspdx.blogspot.com/. There you will be able to see some of our recent acquisitions and hopefully see things which aren't listed on the site. For new customers who would like to visit the store in person, we are open afternoons from 1-5 Monday through Saturday. We routinely open early and stay late and occasionally we do have to close earlier than our normal hours (to make it to the post office before it closes, to a doctor's appointment, etc). We are also occasionally closed due to health complications or the like and hope that you will understand if you stop by when we are not able to open the store. We are clearly a family owned and run business and hope that you expect to encounter a little character when you visit us. We also hope that you will understand if you catch us at an inopportune moment and if you're coming from across the city- or even from another city- please do give us a call at (503) 239-5222 to make sure we'll be there to help you. Thank you very much for visiting us online and we hope to see you in person some day.

Again, thank you very much for looking and we hope we will be able to do business with you in the future. If you are interested in selling books, magazines, photographs, maps or rare paper items please contact us at 503 239-5222 or at longfellowspdx@comcast.net We are fairly selective when it comes to buying but are willing and able to pay more than anyone else in town for quality and rare items. We prefer large libraries or collections of books but are absolutely willing to buy single items if they are noteworthy, rare or of particular interest to us. Thanks again for looking.