Underground Books

About

Rare booksellers at the crossroads of science, nature, and Fairyland... Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop founded as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia in 2011. Proprietors Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met the same year, 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 historic downtown Carrollton. 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. After nearly 15 years operating two open bookshops, in 2025, we sold what is now The Underground Bookshop in Carrollton to store manager Anna Anabseh Clark and Hills & Hamlets Bookshop in Serenbe to neighbor Shree Summerlin. We love to bring the openness, curiosity, and sense of magic and community we fostered in our brick and mortar neighborhood bookshops to our online rare and antiquarian offerings—follow us on Instagram and TikTok for creative visual explorations of rare book magic! 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.

Terms of Sale

Items Subject to Prior Sale All items on our website are subject to prior sale. Occasionally items listed for sale will have already sold in one of our brick & mortar stores or on another website, and may not have been removed from the website yet. We update it daily, sometimes multiple times a day, but on occasion an item purchased may no longer be available. Orders are typically confirmed within one business day of being placed. Guarantee We guarantee the condition of every book as it's described on our website. If you're dissatisfied with your purchase for any reason at all, you may return your item for a full refund within 30 days of the purchase date. If the error is ours, we will also pay the return shipping. We are genuinely interested in cultivating sincere relationships with our customers, and we want you to be happy with your purchases. If there's a problem, let us know. Shipping Terms Orders will ship within 2 business days, usually faster. If your book order is heavy or oversized, or is a full set of books, shipping may be higher. Free item tracking numbers come with every purchase (domestic). Please contact us for an international shipping quote today.