The main floor of Jane Addams Book Shop.
| Location |
| 208 North Neil Street |
| Hours |
|
Monday: 10 AM to 5:30 PM Tues-Fri: 10 AM to 7 PM Saturday: 10 AM to 5 PM Sunday: 1 PM to 5 PM |
| Phone |
| (217) 356-2555 |
| Website |
| Homepage |
|
info@janeaddamsbooks.com |
| Owner(s) |
| Don and Susan Elmore |
| Established |
| 1993 |
| Payment Method |
|
Cash, Credit, Store Credit, Gift Cards |
| Wheelchair accessibility |
|
Reasonably spaced shelves. Access to the balcony and third floor through narrow staircases. |
Locally owned store that buys and sells used books and paper goods. There is also a small selection of new books. It can be found on Champaign's North Neil Street. As of early 2013, Jane Addams Book Shop has over 70,000 books throughout it's three floors.
Please make an appointment if you are selling more than fifteen books. Preferred appointment times are one to four PM, Mondays through Thursdays. Although most genres and subjects are acceptable--including old paper goods such as photographs and postcards--romance novels, textbooks, Readers Digests, encyclopedia sets, materials in poor condition, and duplicates of titles currently in stock are unlikely to be purchased. Books are sold for store credit. Gift cards are accepted and can be purchased for any denomination.
Store Guide:
(Store map located here)
Main Floor: Abraham Lincoln, African-American, Americana, Architecture, Art, Assorted collectible books, Chicago, Children’s, Civil War, Comics, Country-specific books (mostly non-travel), Essays, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Greeting Cards, History, Humor, Illinois. Journals and Day Planners, Literary Biographies, Native American, Philosophy, Photography, Reference, Spy/Adventure, The South, Urban Studies, Vintage Fiction, Young Adult.
Balcony/Second Floor: Celebrity Biographies, Journalism, Media, Pop Culture, Religion/Belief Systems/Phenomena.
Third Floor: Business, Collectibles, Cooking, Agriculture, EcologyPets, Economics, Education, Ephemera (old greeting cards, postcards, photos, scrapbooks, etc.), Erotica, Foreign Language, Games, GardeningCrafts, Gender Studies, Greek and Roman Culture, Health and Medicine, Hunting and Fishing. LGBTQA, Law, Linguistics, More Self-Help, Music, Mystery/Suspense, Mythology, Natural History, Parenting, Poetry, Political Science, Psychology, Rural Living, Science (Anthropology, Astronomy, Geology, Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.), Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror, Self-Help, Sexuality, Sociology, Sports, Theater, Transportation, Travel and Geography, True Crime, Women’s Health, Women’s Studies, Zoology.
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