Noah’s Ark Book Attic

Specialties

Books Antiquarian, Used and Rare

History

Established in 1954.

The present owner established this business as a mail order book store specializing in theology and issuing catalogs at regular intervals. As the years passed, we opened a physical store and expanded our holdings to include books on most subjects, ultimately shelving 140,000 books. Upon the commencement of the Internet age, we switched to on-​line listings of our books though still maintaining an open store. In 2002 we moved from our South Carolina location of over 44 years, reducing our inventory by about 100,000 volumes. We have been in Tryon, North Carolina since then.

Meet the Business Owner

Donald H.

Business Owner

Starting in the book business as manager of the book part of a family antique business in 1944, he built that book store up to over 100,000 books by 1954. Establishing his own business in 1954 to sell by catalog, he continued buying for the family business until 1962.