Mr. Stypeck is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and a Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers.
Professional Services:
Accredited Appraisals – to learn more about our appraisal services click here.Consignments – Maximize your profits by using our expertise to sell your high-end merchandise.
Estate Sales – Second Story Books handles the liquidation of estates. Two retail locations, ample warehousing and a close relationship with area and national auction houses make Second Story Books perfectly suited to find the best venue for selling everything from common household items to rare antiquities.
Book Repairs and Rebinding – Second Story offers consultation and binding services upon request.
Second Story Books Provides Books and Other Material for the Following Businesses:
- Motion Picture Production Companies
- Home Builders to Enhance their Model Homes
- Interior Design Firms
- Nursing Homes
- Home Furnishing Retailers to Complement Store Displays
We Purchase Single Titles, Entire Libraries, Graphics, LPs, CDs and DVDs AND Our Buyer Will Come to Your Home for Large Collections. Please refer to our Buying Guidelines and Contact Warren Wigutow at (301) 770-0477 ext. 16 to make an appointment.
Special Collections and many rare items are housed in the Rockville warehouse/retail location and may require an appointment to be viewed. Contact Allan Stypeck at (301) 770-0477 ext. 13.
The following is a poem written by William S. Cohen, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, during the 1970s, while a Congressman. It has been excerpted with permission from his book of poems, Of Sons and Seasons, Simon and Schuster. The poem was inspired by the original Second Story Warehouse located in Alexandria, Virginia.
Second Story Books
Pages Press betweenwater-soaked and warped
boards of cloth.
Hieroglyphics heaped
in deep layers of ink,
indecipherable in their mass.
Strangers come here picking
through faded titles,
sifting through the rubble
in search of a fragment,
some clue to the fate
of an ancient state
that rose and fell
under the weight
of crumbling time.
As if the words
could turn the keys
and unlock the
rusty rehearsal
of old mistakes
that we repeat
on the future's
shrinking stage.