Paper Birch Books

A host of tomes timely & timeless, rare & spectacular!

Paper Birch Books is a little local independent used bookstore in Little Italy, Boyle McCauley, Edmonton, which opened in December 2022. We specialize in quality used, rare, and spectacular books: titles timely and timeless, contemporary and historical; tomes that inspire tactile and visual delight; visionary and daring voices; intriguing and zany ephemera. Our curation leans towards the literary, intellectual, eclectic, diverse, and curious. We have nonfiction and fiction, poetry, art and cookbooks, children’s books, graphic novels, and more, at a variety of price points, editions, and conditions (from buttery soft vintage paperbacks to crisp hardcovers!).

Looking for a first edition of Anne of Green Gables? Vintage sci-fi paperbacks? A signed James Baldwin, Ursula Le Guin, Leonard Cohen, Kurt Vonnegut? Billy Ray Belcourt’s poetry? A leather-bound set of the works of the Jewish-Romano historian Flavius Josephus? Ottolenghi cookbooks? Omar El Akkad’s latest novel? That vintage picture book from your childhood whose name you’ve forgotten, the one with meatballs falling from the sky? Erotic art from the seventeenth century? An Agatha Christie mystery? A Penguin Classic or hardcover Everyman’s?

ALL OF THE ABOVE? We’ve got you covered!