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    Herridge Books

    4.2 (23 reviews)
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    Brendan R.

    Charming used book shop with reasonable prices. Got books for my kids, wife, and I. Used trade paperbacks, summer reading material. Quality selection.

    Brian S.

    A small used book store located only a short distance for the center of Wellfleet. You could take this entire store and stick it in a typical Barnes & Noble or Borders and not even notice it. No cafe, no magazines and no bargain books. Just a simple old fashion bookstore with lots of great, used books. That what makes this place so charming. The first thing you notice when you walk into Herridge Books is that it smells like books. Old books to be precise. Old books have a certain, unmistakable smell to them. Kind of like coffee in the morning, kittens, or freshly baked bread, nothing else like it. Then of course you notice the books. Lots of them piled up everywhere. Pretty messy actually but that's how used bookstores are suppose to be and that's part of the appeal. A nice, rather eclectic selection of tomes, with classics, modern novels, history, travel books and local history. In this type of bookstore you take your chances because the inventory is always changing. If you want the latest best seller you are better off going to a Barnes & Noble, no guarantee you'll find it here. You will be assured of finding something interesting and if you can't you can ask the one of the employees; they live, breath, and ooze literary perspicacity and are not only helpful but obviously love talking about books. No, you won't find rows and rows of best sellers, graphic novels, magazines or great bargains on books. You won't have access to coffee, artery clogging pastries, or comfy chairs although there do have a cool bench right in the middle of the store. All you will find here are lots of great books and extremely pleasant, knowledgeable people that love books. For a book store that should be enough.

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    9 months ago

    This place is cool. But not a real bargain and selection is meh. Makes me sad as a reader.

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    10 years ago

    Treasure trove of used and new titles...love the layout and loved browsing. I could spend hours here.

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    6 years ago

    Great laid back used book store with more books than space. Love browsing during vacation and hunting for that perfect find.

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    8 years ago

    One of the best used book stores I've been in and definitely the best on the cape! The owner is incredibly knowledgeable.

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    9 years ago

    Always fun to browse the stock upstairs and downstairs--and leaving with something unexpected.

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    10 years ago

    Yay for books! It's an excellent used bookstore, with lovely people staffing it. I could have stayed all afternoon.

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    15 years ago

    Fantastic. Excellent selection of appropriately-priced books with a quirky old bookstore feel. I could spend hours...

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    One of the best used book stores I've been in and definitely the best on the cape!

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    Greg's Used Books - Sign near sidewalk

    Greg's Used Books

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    Once I walked through the door I was greeted by a strong smell of incense. Walking down the narrow…read morestairs to the shop are retro 80's movie posters on the walls. The store is a bit small but it is fully stocked with used books, board games, retro video games and figurines. Friendly staff. Fair prices!

    WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD, Independently owned and operated, used book store?!?…read more As a traveler passing through a few of the sleepy Cape Towns on the off-season, I stumbled across Greg's while walking Orleans' main street where I encountered a sign propped up against a brick wall bearing a stylized image of Medusa's Mean Mug and reading "Greg's Used Books Around Back". Undeterred and unturned to stone, my buddy and I made a left 'round the building and then a quick right where we saw the entrance to Greg's shop. The entry way was a staircase that lead us down to what we soon learned was considered to be by the political pearl clutchers in the area, Orleans' own underworld. Perhaps they were right, in a sense, given that a book about the blues bearing Robert Johnson's image was the first thing my eyes caught in the enclosed glass case of books near the entrance. Were we about to make a faustian deal of our own? Having descended down below, my buddy and I soon found ourselves in a relatively small yet incredibly well and interestingly stocked book store with posters of Jim Morrison and the Doors decorating the walls, amongst other things. We looked around for a bit and came across not only books, but also true relics from the 80's and 90's, including vhs tapes, boxed super famicom games with beautiful box art, etc. We were eventually greeted not by a Gorgon, but Greg himself, who was really a character and in the best sense of the term. Our conversation with him ran the gamut from owning and operating a business like his to politics, philosophy, and literature. He was a really cool, well versed, interesting, and friendly guy and without any pretense. For that, I respect him and his shop, which I gladly supported with my business. All in all, my experience at Greg's was Good. Everything was reasonably and fairly priced and it turns out that it isn't the underworld that some in town have made it out to be. In fact, perhaps in a world of confusion and inversion, a descent down into Greg's used book store is really a move up.

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