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Welcome to Common Crow Books!

Welcome to Common Crow Books!

We are Pittsburgh's premier purveyor of old, rare, out-of-print and unusual books & ephemera.  Browse our 75,000+ items online or make an appointment to visit us in person!

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New Arrivals for October

New Arrivals for October

Newly cataloged items from local estates!

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A Charles Dibdin Collection

A Charles Dibdin Collection

A collection of works -- music and prose -- many signed -- by the brilliant 18th century English composer.

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Judaica - New Arrivals

Judaica - New Arrivals

Books from several local collections, including from the estate of Walter Jacob, a nationally recognized leader in American Reform Judaism and the chief rabbi at Rodef Shalom in Pittsburgh.

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Fine Bindings and Leatherbound Treasures

Fine Bindings and Leatherbound Treasures

Handsome devils! Take a look at some good-looking volumes from across the centuries.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: A List

Mary Roberts Rinehart: A List

A collection of the Pittsburgh author's mysteries, fiction, essays, autobiographical accounts, travels, WWI writings, etc. Have a look!

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List of Books in African Languages

List of Books in African Languages

A list of over 300 items, all extremely uncommon, in Zulu, Hausa, Mende, Sesotho and other African tongues. Includes primary school books, novels, poetry, Christianity, history, etc.

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East Asian Buddhism List

East Asian Buddhism List

Well over 100 books, the majority in Chinese or Japanese, on Buddhism and related subjects. Many are very uncommon!

East Asian Buddhism List

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The Journals and Letters of Susan Burney: Music and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century England. Philip Olleson.
Olleson, Philip

The Journals and Letters of...

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LensWork Quarterly (photo journal) 85 issues, nos. 19-111, Fall 1997 - April 2014. Brooks Jensen, ed.
Jensen, Brooks, ed.

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Dashiell Hammett (HBJ Album Biographies. Julian Symons, Matthew Bruccoli, series.
Symons, Julian; Bruccoli, Matthew (series...

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Letters upon the Poetry and Music of the Italian Opera. Addressed to a Friend (1789. John Brown.
Brown, John

Letters upon the Poetry and...

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Notes on the Hundred Days' Reform Movement of 1898 in China (2001 in Chinese
Lesu Cai; Yong Zhang; Xianming...

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Knoxville Borough, A History (1938
(Pittsburgh)

Knoxville Borough, A History (1938)

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Where Land Meets Sea, the Tide Line of Cape Cod
Leighton, Clare

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Secret Archives of the Chinese Customs: A Compilation of Correspondence between Robert Hart and...
Xiafei Chen, ed. Robert Hart...

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