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✨ Collector’s Editions from Azeroth ✨ A rare set of World of Warcraft PC Collector’s Edition boxes just landed at Big Story. Each one represents a different era in Azeroth — the legendary fantasy world where WoW has lived for two decades. Available now: ⚔️ Cataclysm Collector’s Edition — $95 🛡️ Warlords of Draenor Collector’s Edition — $80 🌿 Legion Collector’s Edition — $105 Collector-grade nostalgia, design, and mythmaking — on the shelves now. #WorldOfWarcraft #WoWCollectorsEdition #Azeroth #GamingHistory

Stacks like this arriving daily. Local titles like Nosler’s Reloading Guide and Riding Central Oregon Horse Trails sitting right alongside frequently asked for books— Maus, The Creative Act, Shōgun, Becoming Supernatural, Dopamine Nation. And then the curveballs we love: Hawaiian Mythology, Restorative Practices of Wellbeing, an Illustrated Glossary of Snow and Ice, and plenty more that don’t fit neatly into any one lane. All used. All thoughtfully curated.

Tonight at Big Story we’re processing through newly arrived used books 📚 Every day brings a different collection through the door. We’re grateful to curate a shop that’s built this way: not by algorithms or bulk orders, but by paying attention to you—our community—one book at a time. #InBendOR #UsedBooks #IndependentBookstore #BookCuration

A summit of stories just arrived. 🏔️ Ice fields, first ascents, women on rope teams before the world made space for them, frozen frontiers, thin air philosophy, and the psychology of obsession. Not just mountaineering — human endurance, solitude, obsession, courage, and the geometry of risk. For climbers, dreamers, wanderers, and armchair alpinists. Now on the shelves at Big Story. 🧭

🎉 CELEBRATING 5 YEARS 🎉 Anniversary Sale — Buy 2, Get 1 Free Wednesday 1/21 · Open 10–6 Five years ago, we ventured into something entirely new for us. We saw an opportunity—to step into a business we didn’t come from, but one we deeply believed in. A bookstore felt like a place where curiosity, community, and ideas could live in the real world. Over these five years, Big Story has become more than a shop. We’ve spent countless hours learning, sourcing books, following threads of interest, and engaging in thousands of mind expanding conversations sparked by what’s on these shelves. Conversations that jump between history, philosophy, fiction, science, and culture. What’s kept this place alive is a community of curious-minded readers and the many people who choose Bend as a vacation destination. People who browse slowly, ask good questions, and care about where their books come from. We’re deeply grateful to everyone who chooses to shop local and support independent bookstores—not out of obligation, but because they value spaces like this. Thank you to the regulars who know the aisles well, the first-time visitors who linger, and everyone who believes a bookstore can still be a cultural anchor—not just a transaction. Come browse, shop, and celebrate with us. We’re grateful you’re part of this story.

We ❤️ Used Books Fresh arrivals just landed—everything from hot newer titles to timeless classics in their genre. And yes… a standout: a first edition of John le Carré’s debut novel, Call for the Dead (1961). Almost new condition.

🖤 Shakespeare, the way history actually gave him to us. These aren’t just “old-looking books.” They are facsimiles of one of the most important objects in Western literature. Shakespeare’s plays were originally printed in the early 1600s as cheap, fragile pamphlets called quartos — meant to be read, folded, shared, and eventually destroyed. Most of them were. In 1623, seven years after Shakespeare died, two of his fellow actors gathered his work and published what became known as the First Folio — the first collected edition of his plays. Without it, half of Shakespeare’s work would be lost forever. Today, fewer than 240 First Folios survive. Each one is worth $5–10 million. They live in vaults at the British Library, Oxford, Harvard, and a handful of private collections. So in the late 1800s and early 1900s (this one likely early 1900s), publishers created luxury facsimiles like this — using rag paper, hand-engraved plates, period typography, and ribbon bindings — so collectors and scholars could experience Shakespeare the way 17th-century readers did. The engravings you see here — Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Windsor Castle — were themselves made from Renaissance and 19th-century paintings, turning this into a copy of a copy of history. You’re not just reading Shakespeare. You’re holding how Shakespeare was preserved. This facsimile set: $95 📚✨ #Shakespeare #FirstFolio #BookHistory #LiteraryArtifacts

😍⚡️😍 Still unpacking boxes from our Bay Area run—and this is the kind of haul that reminds us why we do this. • A like-new 1980s Lord of the Rings hardcover book club set • Haruki Murakami first editions — 1Q84 and After the Quake • Vintage mid century science fiction with striking, two-color cover design • Terry Pratchett with unforgettable cover art (a rat on a cat, truly) • American Psycho — first edition, first printing. Yes. That one. We love finding editions like these—objects with history, intentional design, and stories that still carry weight decades later.

What do these all have in common? 🎧🏙️ They all orbit the 99% Invisible Book Club, where Roman Mars and Elliott Kalan took on The Power Broker — and turned a famously massive, intimidating book into a months-long shared deep dive. @99percentinvisible That series unpacked how Robert Moses reshaped New York (and American cities) without ever being elected — street by street, bridge by bridge. 📘 The Power Broker barely mentions Jane Jacobs — even though The Death and Life of Great American Cities became the philosophical counterweight to Moses’ vision. Add in the graphic biography of Moses and The 99% Invisible City, and you’ve got a full-circle look at how cities are designed, imposed, resisted, and lived in. If you loved the Book Club episodes, these belong together on your shelf. If you haven’t listened yet… this is your sign. #BigStoryBend #99PercentInvisible #99PIBookClub #ThePowerBroker #RomanMars ElliottKalan JaneJacobs UrbanDesign CityNerd MindExpandingBooks UsedBooks

Popular new releases. Hot classics. Cult favorites. Literary troublemakers. Fresh stacks just landed—timeless, subversive, unforgettable. Come browse what everyone’s still talking about (and arguing over). 📚🔥 #IndieBookstore #LiteraryClassics #CultClassics #BookshopVibes #ReadersOfInstagram

The Sandman — Absolute Edition 🖤 All four volumes. Like new. A modern myth in its definitive form — dream, death, memory, and ruin bound in black. These oversized editions do justice to the art, the scope, and the weight of the story. $300 for the complete four-volume set. Available now at Big Story. One set. No holds. Hashtags (dark, collector-clean): #TheSandman #NeilGaiman #GraphicNovelArt #AbsoluteEdition ComicBookCollecting ModernMythology BookstoreFinds UsedBooks BendOregon

Five boxes of lovely kids’ books landed today 📚✨ Here’s just a small sample—and the condition is incredible. (Truly rare for a haul of kids’ books.) We’re pricing and shelving today, so they’ll be hitting the floor fast. Stop in and add a few future favorites to your collection 💛 #BigStoryKids #IndependentBookstore #KidsBooks #PictureBooks EarlyReaders BookstoreFinds UsedBooks BendOregon ShopLocalBend

For the endlessly curious. 🧐🧠 A stack of nonfiction that challenges, inspires, and occasionally wrecks your worldview — featuring Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook (2004), raw and timeless, alongside Vans: Off the Wall, a visual history of skate culture, style, and rebellion. From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, A Little History of the World, and A History of the Vikings, to books on design, color, architecture, philosophy, and counterculture — these are titles that expand how you think and see the world.

Freshly Refreshed ✨ Our Curated Book Bundles are stocked up—stacked with intention and ready to go. From badass habits & mindset upgrades to must-read classics, each bundle is handpicked around a theme and meant to be read together. No guesswork. Just really good books. Perfect for gifting, discovering, or grabbing something smarter than you planned to. 📚🔥

Oversized Inspiration Incoming 📚✨ A fresh stack of used art, fashion, design, and lifestyle books just hit the floor—and this collection is big in every sense. From iconic photography and interiors to culture-shaping creatives, these are books meant to be lingered over. And yes… the Andy Warhol volume is GIANT. Truly oversized. Coffee-table legend status. Perfect for gifting, styling your space, or getting lost in visual inspiration on a winter afternoon. One-of-a-kind copies, once they’re gone, they’re gone. #UsedBooks #ArtBooks #FashionBooks #DesignBooks OversizedBooks CoffeeTableBooks VisualCulture BookstoreFinds

📚🎁📚We’re stocking the shelves with hundreds of thoughtfully curated used books—each one hand-chosen, each one a little discovery. 📚✨ Books make wonderful gifts (for others and yourself). Come browse what just arrived.

⚡️Vintage Mass-Market Paperbacks!⚡️ From existentialism and anarchism to mysticism, psychology, tarot, and countercultural classics — these are the books that once fit in coat pockets, backpacks, and nightstands… and quietly rewired how people thought. Highlights in this batch: • Sartre on existential psychoanalysis • Jung, Watts, and the inner life • Hannah Arendt on the human condition • Vintage Tarot guides + esoteric oddities • Gonzo politics, revolution, and radical thought • Beagle, Tolkien, and mythic imagination • The occasional cult classic that still feels a little dangerous

Street art out front. 🌼📚🍄 Mind expanding books inside. Used & new books, open til 6:00 until 12/24.

It’s a lovely day to browse for books. This stack of used literature titles — and hundreds more hitting the shelves today. Come see what’s new, what’s timeless, and what’s been waiting for you. 📚🤍

✨ Extended Holiday Hours Begin Today ✨ We’re now open 10am–6pm, December 13–24, to give you a little extra time to wander, discover, and find something just right. Shop for someone special—or treat yourself to a book you’ve been meaning to read. #HolidayShopping #ShopLocalBend #UsedAndNewBooks #BookstoreVibes #GiftsForReaders

A small stack. Big stories. 📚✨ • Heart-Shaped Box — Joe Hill First printing · $70 • Heretics of Dune — Frank Herbert Second printing · $42 • The Tale of Genji — Lady Murasaki Often called the world’s first novel · $26 • In Cold Blood — Truman Capote First Book Club Edition · $60 • Musashi — Eiji Yoshikawa 1981 second printing (Harper Row / Kodansha) · $25 All in very good condition, each protected in a Brodart cover. Thoughtfully sourced, carefully kept, and ready for their next reader. #IndependentBookstore #UsedBooks #FirstEditions #SciFiClassics #LiteraryHistory #BookCollectors #MindExpanding #BooksOfInstagram

✨Restocking Poetry! ✨From Dickinson and Mary Oliver to Rumi, Kaur, Bukowski, and Heaney — a whole lot of heart, grit, and wonder packed onto one little shelf. All used, all curated with love. ✨📚

🖤💀 The Death Note Black Edition full collection — Volumes 1–6 — has arrived at Big Story! ❌SOLD❌ This striking manga set brings together Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata’s iconic cat-and-mouse supernatural thriller in the gorgeous oversized black-and-silver editions. Perfect for collectors, manga fans, or anyone ready to fall into one of the most addictive stories ever written. All 6 volumes — $70. 🖤 First come, first served! 📚 Used • Excellent condition • Hard to keep in stock! #deathnote #deathnoteblackedition #manga #mangacollection #tsugumiohba #takeshiobata #mangashop #usedbooks #collectorsedition #otaku #pnwbooks #readmanga

Some of our best-sellers are BACK… and all used!! A little bit of everything—history that reshapes your worldview, nature writing that grounds you, comfort-lit, sci-fi classics, cookbooks with actual soul, and the kind of nonfiction that sparks big conversations. These never last long on the shelves… 👀✨ Come snag your next favorite before someone else does.