NEWS & EVENTS
Did you know? Caliban is open seven days a week!
It’s October and the store is, more than usual, bursting with terrific new arrivals! New stock includes books of illustration, interior design, mathematics, philosophy, and zen Buddhism; plays, novels, fairy tales, fishing books, leather-bound books, and children’s books; LPs, DVDs, and pulp fiction. And we’ve got a new Halloween window! Stop by this long weekend, we’ll be open all three days. A reminder that on Sundays, Craig Street parking is free, while on Saturdays and Sundays you can also enjoy free parking nearby in the CMU parking lot at Zebina Way & Winthrop (behind the Irish Design Center). Note: Columbus Day is NOT considered a holiday by the Pittsburgh Parking Authority, so (Craig) street parking fees will apply on Monday. See you soon!
You may have heard: Late Nite Thursdays are now Sale Night Thursdays! Browse the shop every Thursday night from 5:30 to 8:30pm for revolving sales. Thursday nights in October, we’re offering 15% off storewide! Check out who else is open Thursday evenings on Craig Street here. Overall, we’re trying to expand our shop hours to meet your reading needs. We’re open seven days a week, now 11:00am to 6:00pm, plus later on Thursday nights.
Get in touch with us if you’d like to join our mailing list and receive news about goings on around the shop. (Don’t worry, we’re too busy to flood your in-box!) If you’d like to help ensure we get through your spam filters, add calibanbooks@gmail.com to your email Contacts list.
In the interest of keeping covid (and flu etc) transmission rates to a minimum, we encourage masks for browsers inside the shop. We have masks on hand if you wish to wear one.
We’re still fielding books requests, taking remote payments, scheduling private browsing appointments, and doing curbside pickups by request. Click here to learn more about the steps we’re still taking to mitigate COVID-19 spread, including shop policies and customer safety precautions.
Thanks to a partnership with Bookshop.org, Caliban Books offers customers a way to have new copies of the books you want to read or gift (that we might not have in stock) delivered to your door. We have Staff Picks, Read of the Week and other Book Lists to help readers discover something new and are happy to facilitate requests for specific titles. Ask us about custom lists–for reading, research, gift-giving, book clubs, or course requirements.
A portion of every sale made through our page at Bookshop.org goes to Caliban, and we thank you for your support during these unusual times. More information about exploring Caliban on Bookshop.org can be found here.
For anyone seeking to fill background shelves for a film, play, or photo shoot, you should know about our new Book Rental Program! Click here for more info.
We are still looking making house calls—by appointment. We are taking a hiatus on buying books for cash at the store, but we’ll still take a look at them for Store Credit. Please call or email us to make arrangements.
You can learn more about our buying and selling policies on the About Us page.
CONTACT US
PHONE: 412-681-9111 EMAIL: calibanbooks@gmail.com
NEW ARRIVALS
ABOUT US
Caliban Books buys and sells used and rare books for readers and collectors. We choose our books with care and avoid bestsellers, romance novels, and the like. Our prices tend to be 25% lower than online sellers, and we have a basement full of paperback fiction, mysteries, science-fiction, all priced way below retail. Learn more about our buying and selling policies on the About Us page.
Our shop also has a corner devoted to record albums and CDs; specializing in Indie Rock, Sixties Pop, Punk, Americana, Folk, Blues, and Jazz. We’ll be adding Spoken Word and some Classical to the mix, too.
Although Caliban Books no longer lists books for sale online, you can check out what’s new around the shop on our New Arrivals page.
