"I see people using the weather as a pretext for striking up acquaintance. Women begin to talk among themselves and there is sudden intimacy. The men have also formed a group...But nobody pays any attention to me. I sit alone, a victim of my own isolation, shyness, and alienation from the world. I begin to read a book, and this provokes hostility, for reading a book at such a time seems like a challenge and an insult to the other passengers."

WHO SAID IT?

Our entire inventory of books (20,000 and growing) is located at
ABE BOOKS

Who are we?

Bookstore owner: Bruce A. Coombs, member of The New England Booksellers Association and The Ephemera Society of America, contact him at bruce@heritagebks.com

Bookstore manager: Nicole Goldstein, contact her at nicole@heritagebks.com

Welcome to Heritage Books. Since 1986, we have offered rare and hard-to-find books for the discerning reader. Our shelves are filled with a wide range of both fiction and non-fiction titles. We also have a large children's section. The inside of Heritage Books would feel familiar to any bibliofile - the pine interior and balustraded loft overlooking the ground floor foyer of a large library, quiet, cluttered, slightly dim. But it's the merchandise, with the faint smell and feel of years gone by that makes the store so recognizable to book lovers. The names and jackets on the old, hardback volumes elicit memories of Saturday mornings at the library curled in a chair, following Lassie through the woods or Captain Nemo to the bottom of the sea.

Please take some time to browse through our rooms of select books here online.

Come visit the other side of our building too, Heritage Surveys, Inc., a professional land surveying and engineering business.