Abracadabra Books

Specialties

Rare, Scarce and out of print books. We have over 90,000 out of print books in most fields, including History, Military, First Editions, Fiction, Childrens, Art, Aviation, Nautical, Geology, Science, Math, Physics, Western Americana, Americana, Travel, Great Britain, Architecture, Cookbooks, World War I, World War II, Civil War, Mountaineering, Engineering, Books on Books, Philosophy & Religion, Archaeology, Mysteries, Western Fiction, Science Fiction, and much more.

History

Established in 1977.

We started as a bookshop in January, 1976 in Denver, Colorado by buying out famed Stage House II, Boulder’s best bookshop, and moving the stock to Denver, where we occupied 180 square feet of the Nepenthes Café’, on Market Street. Realizing we could not get 10,000 books into that space we relocated to Court place, above a bowling alley.

The building was purchased by the Hare Krishnas, intent on expanding their business empire. We were summarily ordered to move out, which we did in 1981 into our own quarters at 3827 West 32^nd Avenue, behind a fine old Victorian mansion. Here we grew to about 40,000 volumes aided by Ms. Kennedy, Bruce Albright and others. But, by 1994 we had outgrown our space, and thus moved to 32 South Broadway, where we quickly grew to over 80,000 volumes. Space is a vacuum…

During the period 1994 – 1999, we were blessed with the able management of John Snurka, and the skillful sales ability of Caren Eno and Ken Chapin. These were the golden years of Booksearch bef