We Pay Cash
for Books, DVDs, LPs & CDs
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Prospero's pays more cash than the competition! If we need it, chances are you will get more for your gently used books, DVDs, LPs than anywhere else. We also trade for in-stock items - receive trade credit worth up to 50% of what we'll resell your old books, DVDs & LPs for. We ask that your items be in good shape (no underlining or highlighting, must have dust jackets, no visible scratches...)
PROSPERO'S IS CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR:
1. Occult/Wiccan, Eastern Philosophy, and Philosophers (not surveys)
2. History - Modern editions of: Civil War, Local/Regional, world history
3. Authors & Books we're always looking for:
Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games) -- Daniel Woodrell (Winter's Bone) -- Candice Milard (River of Doubt & Destiny of the Republic) -- Edmund Morris (Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex & Colonel Roosevelt)
ITALO CALVINO : (All)
MICHAEL CHABON : (All)
SHIRLEY CHRISTIAN : Before Lewis & Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the Frech Dynasty the Ruled America's Frontier
PAULO COELHO : The Alchemist
JARED M. DIAMOND : Collapse -- Guns Germs & Steel -- others...
BOB DYLAN : Chronicle vol. 1
David Eggers: (All)
JAY FELDMAN : When the Mississippi Ran Backwards
MALCOM GLADWELL : Outliers -- Blink -- Tipping Point
SARA GRUEN : Water for Elephants
GRAHAM HANCOCK : Fingerprints of the Gods -- Underworld -- Message of the Sphinx -- Talisman -- Supernatural -- Heaven's Mirror
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS : God is Not Great -- Why Orwell Matters -- Thomas Paine's Rights of Man -- Jefferson: Author of America -- Letter to a Young Contrarian -- Kissinger - others...
DORIS KEARNS : Team of Rivals
STEPHEN KING : The last 4 in the Gunslinger Series (note: we get a TON of King's other work)
C.S. LEWIS - (All)
CORMAC McCARTHY : (All)
CHINA MIEVILLE : (All)
YUKIO MISHIMA : (All)
ANAIS NIN : (All)
MICHAEL POLLAN : Omnivore's Dilema -- Botany of Desire -- In Defense of Food -- A Place of My Own
DANIEL QUINN : Ishmael - My Ishmael -- Story of B
WILLILAM REDDING : Tom's Town
KURT VONNEGUT : Cat's Cradle -- Slaughterhouse Five -- Breakfast of Champions -- Bluebeard -- Sirens of Titan
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE : (All)
CHARLES WILLIAMS : Shadows of Ecstacy -- The Greater Trumps -- All Hallows Eve -- Many Dimensions -- War in Heaven -- others
ANTON WILSON : Illuminatus trilogy -- Schrodinger's Cat trilogy -- others...
Dangerous Book for Boys and The Dangerous Book for Girls
All books by the following authors :
EDWARD ABBEY / MARCUS AURELIUS / JULIAN BARNES / MICHAEL BESCHLOSS / LOUIS BORGES / JIM CARROLL / NOAM CHOMSKY / LEONARD COHEN / E.E. CUMMINGS / BILLY COLLINS / GREGORY CORSO /DON DELILLO / DERRIDA / FOUCAULT / ALLEN GINSBERG / G.I. GURDJIEFF / HEGEL / ERNEST HEMMINGWAY / WALTER ISAACSON / C.G. JUNG / JACK KEROUAC / SOREN KIERKEGAARD / TED KOOSER / KRISHNAMURTI / FREDERICO GARCIA LORCA / H.P. LOVECRAFT / GABRIEL MARQUEZ / KARL MARX / DAVID MCCULLOUGH / EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY / HENRY MILLER / JIM MORRISON / MICHAEL MOORCOCK / NIETZSCHE / PABLO NERUDA / GEORGE ORWELL / CHUCK PAHLANIUK / AYN RAND / TOM ROBBINS / BERTRAND RUSSELL / J.D. SALINGER / DAVID SEDARIS / PATTI SMITH / WALLACE STEVENS / HUNTER S. THOMPSON / QUINCY TROUPE / WILLIAM T. VOLMANN / WITTGENSTEIN / HOWARD ZINN
Science Fiction : we are always looking for good pocket paperback science fiction. Yet, there are a few names we don't need: Asimov / Aspin / Tolkien / Star Trek / Star Wars / Arthur C. Clarke...