Old Saratoga Books is an open shop owned by Dan and Rachel Jagareski in the historic Hudson River village of Schuylerville, New York. You can visit our shop in person Wednesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. If you need an alternate browsing time, call us at (518) 695-5607 or email us at oldsaratogabooks@gmail.com and we will arrange an appointment.
Our brick-walled book shop is located in the Bullard Building, an 1870s commercial storefront, and features a wide-ranging selection of used, rare and out-of-print titles with an eye for the unusual and interesting. We stock 50,000 books organized in over 90 categories. We are particularly strong in the American colonial and Revolutionary War sections, and feature many vintage paperbacks, children's literature, jazz and other music books, handicrafts titles, loads of art books, history of all kinds, and classic novels. Only a small percentage of our titles are listed on-line, so feel free to call regarding any out-of-print books and we will be happy to search our shelves for you.
Stop by sometime and visit our comfortable shop. Our bookstore cat, Sam, will be happy to jump in your lap if given the chance, and Dan and Rachel would be happy to help you with your book searches or to share our favorite authors and titles with you.
Old Saratoga Books is now offering all of our mass market paperback novels for $1.00 each, rather than selling them at half the original cover price. The success of our monthlong experiments with $1.00 paperbacks was very positive, so we have decided to make this a permanent policy and help our fellow bibliomanes feed the need to read.
We are happy to gift wrap your book and insert a card as a complimentary service. Feel free to send an email or call our shop if you have a certain book in mind that you don't see on our website. We may well have it on our bookstore shelves as only a small percentage of our books are listed online at any given time.
To our Internet customers: please don't hesitate to send us an email about your book collecting needs and we will be happy to work up a quote for you. We ship books out nearly every day and are happy to mail internationally.
We hope you enjoy browsing our books and extend an invitation to come visit in person should you be in the neighborhood. We are located near many other great used and rare bookshops, including Lyrical Ballad Bookstore, Village Booksmith, Owl Pen Books, DogEars, Pat Sheldon Books, and the Children's Book Nook, so we would be delighted to assist you as you enjoy a full day or two of book hunting in our area. You can find detailed directions to our shop on the "About Us" page of this website.
Old Saratoga Books is the BEST USED BOOKSTORE according to Metroland Magazine's Best of the Capital Region 2004 issue:
"Why do we settle for boring, sanitized Book Chopper chains when perfect little hideaways like this exist? Nestled in an 1870s brick storefront Old Saratoga Books is everything you ever wanted from a bookstore: shelves stocked from dark, hardwood floors to dark, hardwood ceilings, '50s pulp fiction, a late-19th century cash register, a gray store kitty named Sam (who likes sunlight and books about cats) and an extremely well-stocked inventory--notably in fiction, American history, vintage paperbacks, sci-fi and politics--overfilling two floors, they covered their bases as well as a used bookstore can. Want proof? Browse their up-to-date catalogue at www.oldsaratogabooks.com. But then visit in person, because the shop's too cute to miss out on."
And here's what Book Hunter Press has to say about us:
"We were pleased to be able to revisit this shop several years after our initial stop. The owners must be doing something right as the store has grown considerably since our earlier visit in terms of both size (there's now a second floor) and the number of volumes on display. The shop carries a mix of hardcover volumes representing various periods as well as a generous supply of paperbacks, including a nice selection of vintage paperbacks. Prices were quite reasonable with some bargains to be had."
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