Best Used Book Store South Bend Near Me

4worldlovers: The Friends of the Library Bookstore is open every Friday and offers donated books and media for sale at discounted rates.

The Friends of the Library is a nonprofit organization that engages in advocacy and philanthropy to support the mission and vision of the St. Joe County Public Library.

Donate your used books, CDs, and DVDs to the Friends of the Library Bookstore on Fridays during the book sale. You may also drop off donations to any library branch during normal business hours.

Donated books should be in good condition and recent. We do not accept textbooks, encyclopedias, or magazines older than two years old.

When you donate a book, remember that all donated books do not necessarily enter the sale. Our Friends of the Library team has to consider the cost of materials and labor when adding books into the collection, and many donations are too damaged or dated to be sold. Nothing lasts forever, including books, and many donated books will be recycled.

Other places you can donate to include schools, teachers, hospitals, thrift stores, used bookshops, shelters, retirement homes, assisted living facilities, literacy programs, after school programs, daycares, and armed forces charities. Wherever you donate, be sure to ask first, and please do not leave donations if you are told they cannot be accepted.

4worldlovers: Founded by former students, Book Trader has been serving the Michiana area college students for over a decade! Located conveniently in the River Park area of South Bend close to Adams High School and IU South Bend, we have become a preferred location for many area students where they can buy, rent, and sell their textbooks and other course materials. We pride ourselves in offering generous buyback prices all year long, no matter what college or university you attend!

At Book Trader, we are committed to improving the well being of our local community as well distant communities afflicted with disaster. A portion of proceeds from each book goes directly to fund charitable organizations that are directly involved in relief aid work in our community as well as those organizations on the front lines of delivering life-saving humanitarian aid to people in all corners of the world.

4worldlovers: Check out our new stock and releases on our Facebook page:

Check out our new branded and engraved dice trays, drink coasters,

Ceramic trivets, and custom etched vinyl panels with colored light bases.

New metal or gemstone dice sets and singles at new LOWER prices!

Huge collection of music CD's, all genres. On sale for $1.00 each

Especially works by the classic Greek and Roman authors in English or in the original language (not text books).

The Griffon Bookstore, founded in 1976 by Sarah Bird and Ken Peczkowski, is widely acknowledged as a pioneer in the retail gaming industry. The Griffon has over 4,000 square feet of space on 4 levels devoted to an eclectic assortment of books, games, records, audio and video tapes, gift items, curios and miniature supplies.

The Griffon features a huge selection of gaming dice in sets, singles, and custom made dice/token bags. Always on hand are many traditional and non-traditional card games from around the world as well as card supplies such as card shufflers, card shoes, card holders, card trays, and storage boxes.

For the traditional strategy gamer the Griffon carries in stock over 20 different styles of chess sets, boards and 3 different styles of chess clocks and accessories. The classic Asian strategy games of Go, Shogi, Chinese Elephant Chess, Mah jong, and Ti-chu are always on hand in a variety of sizes and styles. We carry various styles of Cribbage boards and domino sets too.

Miniature modelers, gamers, and diorama makers will find a wide assortment of items in stock. Included are terrain making supplies: flocking, ballast, static grass, tree flock, glues, water effects, and accessories from manufacturers such as Woodland Scenics; ready made scenery from Runic Forge; miniature making tools from Xuron, Xacto, and Zona; ready to make plastic kits from Airfix, Caesar, First to Fight, HAT, IMEX, Italieri, Lindberg, Mars, Pegasus, Redbox, Revell, Tamiya and Zvezda; a comprehensive line of acrylic paint colors from Vallejo; a wide variety of modeler paint brushes in sizes ranging from 3 to 25/0; glues of all types from Testor's, Zap-a-Gap, and Tamiya; mini rare earth magnets for pinning projects; bases and stands for miniatures; 1/72nd scale accent scenery in plastic and metal; and in-store sample displays.

The Griffon's new and used book selections are specialized to cover the fields of classical literature and poetry, classic and medieval history, philosophy and theology, foreign languages, science fiction, mysteries and thrillers, and perhaps one of the largest area sources of military history and reference arranged by time periods. Also, check out our bargain basement book racks of assorted books at a cost from 10-cents to one dollar.

One of a kind trinkets, artifacts and souvenirs that only the Griffon chooses to sell to its customers. Examples of past items: WWII military uniforms and medals, newspapers from the 19th century, books from the 17th century, paper currency and coins from around the world, glass miniatures, artistic collectible plates, native American arrowheads, fossils, Notre Dame sports memorabilia, American Civil War artifacts, bullets, & letters, African tribal masks, wood carvings from Poland, author-signed first edition books, artist-signed paintings and graphics, handpainted metal miniatures,

The Griffon boasts the oldest continuously running dedicated game room in the country. For 47 years the Griffon Game Room has hosted countless RPG games, card games, miniatures games, chess tournaments, and board games. The newly remodeled (2021) rooms can accommodate over 50 players.