GREY MATTER BOOKS

GOTHAM COMES TO HADLEY

After much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth, lo it has come to pass that Grey Matter is now the proud owner of the remains of that legendary fishing destination of the wise, Gotham Book Mart. As most of you are aware, Gotham operated for most of the 20th Century as the city's (and therefore the nation's) headquarters of Modernist poetry and fiction.

The collection had been donated to the University of Pennsylvania, who gobbled up most of it. In order to get at the remaining meat, we had to move the entire, 42-pallet corpse.

A sampling of the zines, journals and chapbooks from Gotham.

Welcome to the Grey Matter/Troubadour Amalgamation of Books, Hadley's #1 hard-to-find source for hard-to-find books and records. We are located just off the bike path at East St. and non-motorists get a 10% discount year-round. We have a large, constantly churned selection of scholarly, scientific and general stock, nearly all priced below their internet brethren. 

FALL SALE SET FOR SEPT. 28th-OCT. 1st

Everything in the store will be 35% off. Many tables of $1 books outside, including Gotham dupes, excess books from an estate library and stuff culled from the shelves.

Even though it had been in decline for decades, an astonishing amount of material remained hidden in the bowels of the building. Books and journals you might see once every couple of years we now have in spades.

We have 100's of Black Sparrow titles, including many signed/limited.

There is a lot of 1960's & 70's avant-garde poetry (and cinema), including works by Susan Howe, Hannah Weiner, Anne Waldman and assorted other usual suspects. The books are now all in-state, and we will be getting them out to the sections and new-arrivals tables throughout the summer.

Hours: M,W,TH, F 10-6; SAT 11-6; SUN 12-5; Tuesday by chance (usually 11-3)