GREY MATTER BOOKS

Well, never in my fifty-four years has the Near Future seemed such a capricious, indeterminate little beast. Will it show itself as a republic restored, a pandemic vanquished? Or will it appear as an insurrection set against an uncontained virus and economic collapse? Are we headed back into globe-spanning house arrest? If so, it was nice seeing you these last four months.  

Welcome to Grey Matter, Hadley's premier hard-to-find bookstore for hard-to-find books. We are located a few clicks north of Rt. 9/Russell Street; the entrance is beside the water tower. We have around 40,000 books which we at least try to keep fresh. We are almost always looking for quality book collections.

Is Hadley too far out of the way? We have a swanky second shop in downtown New Haven, around a third the size, but still worth a visit.

We have been busy book beavers! Among the new acquisitions is a collection of Medieval art and history, with many big books on manuscript illumination, Byzantine iconography, Islamic culture and more. We also bought a few hundred books from a Marxist philosopher, who, unfortunately, did not sufficiently fetishize his commodities. These include lots of Heigegger in both English and German, an inscribed copy of Foucault's 'Surveiller et Punir', and eleven volumes of the Nijoff edition of Husserl.

HADLEY STORE: 47 East Street  413-387-0160   

M-F 10-6; Saturday 11-6; Sunday 12-5

NEW HAVEN STORE: 264 York St. 203-553-3180 

M-S 10-9; Sun 12-6

Also, a collection of Serbian poetry and literary magazines, mostly from the 1930's, many inscribed.