Book Traders Inc

You might not expect the best used bookstore in Polk County to reside in downtown Winter Haven, but there it is! Booktraders offers everything from vintage and antique books to bestsellers, textbooks, cookbooks, sheet music, drama, magazines, children’s literature, philosophy, and trashy novels. With such a large selection of used publications, you might expect the item you want to be difficult to find, but not so! A common-sense organizational system makes it easy to locate the book you desire. more

In this small downtown, only several blocks big, this is a "whole in the downtown" kind of bookstore. You can trade for credit or just buy books, magazines, videos, dvds, and books on tapes. This is a one story huge unadorned room, where you will find rows and rows of bookshelves containing mostly used books. It's not pretty and it's dusty, take wipes, but when I was building a trade library I found some hard to find books on cinematography and some other unusual finds. They sometimes carry brand new books in the front and the magazines on the racks vary greatly. The trade policy is posted, the last I was there they wanted newer books and magazines, but that varies and you should call ahead. With a good lot of books to trade you can sometimes walk out with a new collection of books for the price of tax. more