About AbeBooks
Helping buyers and sellers across the world since 1996. AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books, fine art and collectibles where you can discover and buy the things you love.
Trusted independent sellers from around the world offer for sale millions of new, used and rare books, as well as art and collectibles through the AbeBooks websites. Fill your bookshelves with used books, the latest bestsellers, rare books such as first editions and signed copies, new and used textbooks, and forgotten out-of-print titles from years gone by.Decorate your home with fine art, ranging from vintage posters and prints to etchings and original paintings. Add to your collection with vintage magazines and periodicals, comics, photographs, maps and manuscripts, and paper collectibles ranging from autograph letters to movie scripts and other ephemera.
Millions of books and other objects are listed for sale on our marketplace by thousands of sellers located in more than 50 countries. Our epic selection stretches from manuscripts created before the invention of the Gutenberg Press to the latest signed bestsellers.
We have customers in almost every country of the world, who are buying books and other printed matter published in multiple languages. The magic of AbeBooks is filling your shelves with affordable books, discovering that long-lost title, finding an out-of-print or collectible book that's become hard to find, or discovering something magical from the past that you simply did not know existed - perhaps a letter from a famous author, a 19th century postcard or a copy of a long-defunct magazine.
Diversity and inclusion
Every day we strive to become more diverse and inclusive across all areas of our business - customers, sellers, ourselves, and everyone who engages with us. We do the right thing and not just the easiest thing. We accept that we have a long way to go. From the recruitment process to our office facilities and the challenges of daily work, we identify barriers and remove them. Our flexible working culture means employees can fit work around family commitments and the important things in life.
Environmental sustainability
AbeBooks is dedicated to helping books, art and collectibles find new homes. We also try to make a difference in our two offices in order to protect the environment. We provide facilities for cyclists, and offer extensive services for recycling, and composting. Most of our day-to-day business activities are paperless. ant things in life.