ABOUT US
DBN (it’s easier to say) is a used bookstore & newsstand located on funky Lexington Avenue in downtown Asheville. We carry some valuable, rare, strange, weird & wonderful books as well as cheaper reading copies of everything you need. We are blessed to live & work in a town that values great bookstores. Our sister bookstore, Malaprop’s, opened in 1982. DBN opened in 1988. Each bookstore in Asheville has a special flavor & we would be robbing you if we didn’t recommend you pay each a visit each. Consider: Bagatelle Books, Firestorm, Battery Park Book Exchange, The Irving Book Company and Biblio.com (the latter two are online only.)
With a few exceptions, all of our books are in very good condition, or finer. We specialize in things that amuse us, as well as the metaphysical & occult, hippie how-to, homesteading & self-sufficiency, Eastern medicine, zines, things beautifully illustrated, and Easton & Franklin Press leather-bound editions. We also support a variety of local artists and their wares.
We price books as fairly as possible. We want you to have what you want to read. We list our fancier & rarer stock online at biblio.com & abebooks.com. What we have there is only a fraction of the browsing pleasure we offer; please stop by in person if you can.
HISTORY
Before we inhabited 67 N. Lexington on July 1, 1988, the location had been a shoe store (still have the stools where a shoe expert would sit to fit your shoe), a jewelry store (we inherited a very heavy sea foam green bank safe), a hippie homestead (until recently there was a very weird shower stall in the back) & in the twenties, a livestock auction (a certain regular claims we maintain some ghosts from then).