Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe. Proprietors Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! We married in May of 2014. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women’s Initiative Mentorship Program. We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes. Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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Signed First Edition
The Book of Elsewhere: A Novel SIGNED FIRST EDITION
by Reeves, Keanu; Mieville, China
New York : Del Rey , 2024 (click for more details)
First Edition
Hegel: Philosophy of Mind (Translated with Introduction and Commentary)
by Hegel, G.W.F.; Wallace, W. (Trans.); Miller, A.V. (Trans.); Inwood, M.J. (Revisions/Commentary)
Oxford : Clarendon Press , 2007 (click for more details)
First Edition
Stalin, Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 FIRST EDITION
by Kotkin, Stephen
New York : Penguin Press , 2014 (click for more details)(Complete 4 Volume Set) The Sources of Social Power, Volume 1: A History of Power From the Beginning to AD 1760; Volume 2: The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914; Volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945; Volume 4: Globalizations, 1945-2011
by Mann, Michael
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 (click for more details)Hindu-Buddhist Architecture in Southeast Asia (Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology, Vol 19)
by Chihara, Daigoro; Giebel, Rolf W. (Trans.)
New York : E.J. Brill , 1996 (click for more details)Recent Catalogs
Fine Press: Underground Books Catalogue No. 2
Our first catalogue as members of the ABAA is a celebration of books by several of the finest presses in North America working today: The Arion Press of San Francisco, The Barbarian Press of Mission, British Columbia, Heavenly Monkey of Vancouver, and more.
Recent Catalogs
The Fairy-Land of Science: Underground Books Catalogue No. 1
Welcome to the fairy-land of science...
In this, our first rare book catalogue, you'll find books at the crossroads of science and fairy tales in the Victorian era and beyond! Many of these books are warmly and whimsically written, abundantly illustrated, and bound so beautifully they almost look as if, somehow, they've come to us straight from fairyland themselves.
In this, our first rare book catalogue, you'll find books at the crossroads of science and fairy tales in the Victorian era and beyond! Many of these books are warmly and whimsically written, abundantly illustrated, and bound so beautifully they almost look as if, somehow, they've come to us straight from fairyland themselves.