Vagabound
/ˈvæɡəˌbaʊnd/- A book that has traveled through many hands and shelves before finding its next reader.
- A bookstore that trades in single copies of used editions.
- A reader ambiently wandering the shelves with a specialized kind of bibliomania.
One-Word Wonders
The confident ones. The books so assured of their own identity that they need only a single word to announce themselves. No subtitle, no qualifier, no explanatory clause—just a name, a place, a concept, standing alone on the spine like a monument. These titles are acts of compression, of faith in the reader's imagination, of the belief that one word can carry an entire world. For the reader who appreciates restraint. For the browser who knows that sometimes the shortest titles contain the longest books. Every title here is a gamble on brevity, and every one of them won.
Falling for a Good Book
As the seasons pass from summer to fall (The Vagabound's favorite season), we offer a collection of books on...falling (and autumn in general). In this collection, we range widely from North American authors, across the pond, potentially in the pond, and…
On the shelves
Recently catalogued
Selling a collection?
We're a small shop, but we'll come for the right shelf. Send us a list — or just a sense of what's there — and we'll write back within two business days.
- 1Send us a rough list — even one line is fine.
- 2We write back within two business days with a sense of what we're interested in.
- 3If it's a fit, we drive to you — Pittsburgh, the boroughs, within two hours' drive.
- 4Cash, store credit, or a mixture. We sort the keep-or-pass pile with you.




















































