Welcome to Bell’s Books … A Bay Area Landmark for 85 Years

Open to the public 11 to 5, and also by appointment

seven days a week, through Christmas Eve.

Check out the fabulous holiday windows on our

Instagram account: @windowsofbells 

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This month has brought us a cornucopia of rare book collections; scarce 18th century volumes of Shakespeare, signed editions by  T.S. Eliot, H.G. Wells, Annie Dillard, Harper Lee, Ursula Le Guin, and Robert Frost; first editions of Richard Brautigan, John Steinbeck, Rudyard Kipling, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and J.R.R. Tolkien. We’ve added to the displays with the latest new releases, including  Barack Obama’s A Promised Land.

Located in downtown Palo Alto, Bell’s has served the Stanford University and Silicon Valley communities, providing new, used, and rare books since 1935.

Our century-old storefront houses 300,000 volumes on two floors. Spilling over with hardcover and quality paperback books in 500 subject categories, there is, quite literally, something for everyone at Bell’s: 

Fine bindings, large format art books, 19th Century treasures, second-hand reading copies of classics at affordable prices, children’s picture books, signed first editions, technical books, philosophy, an entire history room, handsome sets, ornamental horticulture, thousands of volumes of poetry, literature, architecture, religion, natural history and more…
As we celebrate our 85th Anniversary, all of us at Bell’s Books send you and yours a happy, safe, holiday season.
 
We would love to help you build a collection of your own.

Bell’s purchases fine books and private collections.