About

Bendowa Books is a bookselling project run by Jon Beacham, who is also the proprietor of the letterpress printing studio and publishing imprint The Brother In Elysium.

My background in working in used bookstores began in the Bay Area in 2003, and continued over the years in multiple bookshops back on the East Coast in New York City. The spaces Hermitage (2007–2009, Beacon, NY) and The Brother In Elysium Books (2018–2019, Tivoli, NY) incorporated a focused selection of used, out of print, and new books alongside the letterpress printing studio; and were also host to a 16mm film screening series, exhibitions on small presses and art, and poetry readings. 

The inventory is located within the printing studio of The Brother In Elysium in Western Massachusetts. If you are interested in browsing books in person, or are passing through the area and would like to visit, please send me a note in advance. I welcome visitors.

I am always interested in buying quality used books within the fields represented on this site, and I travel to do so. If you have books you are interested in selling, please send me an email with further details. Pictures are always helpful.

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