Hobart, a village in the northern Catskills of New York, has sold itself as a book village since 2005: the Hobart Book Village website, in a capture dated September 23, 2026, credits local entrepreneur Don Dales with founding it then and calls it the only book village east of the Mississippi. Writing in the Mountain Eagle on March 13, 2026, a SUNY Institute for Local News reporter described 19th-century Main Street buildings turned over two decades earlier to seven bookstores, and reported that the owner of the Book Village Inn had just bought two of them, Creative Corners and New York Ephemera. The village's own notice says that stock went into a barn behind the inn, which stays shut while it is reorganized. The literary calendar turns on the Hobart Festival of Women Writers: on September 17, 2026 its planning committee called the coming edition, set for June 4 to 6, 2027, the 15th annual festival.
Hobart itself is two short clusters. Adams', Liberty Rock and Blenheim Hill line about 200 yards of Main Street, which is State Route 10, and The Shops Around the Corner, where Quarry Books and More Good Books moved from Main Street in January 2026, sit a minute's walk away on Cornell Avenue. Past the village line the choice narrows fast. Stamford, a second village roughly 3.7 miles northeast up Route 10, adds a used bookstore and a thrift shop that puts books on its markdown lists, and Andes, about 14 miles south-southwest over the hills, has an open shop leaning toward literature and art. Delhi, about as far off to the west-southwest, has The Lost Bookshop on its Main Street, which stocks new titles, and a church thrift shop, the Kirk Thrift Shoppe, whose refused-donations list includes books.
Plan around the season. The village homepage, as archived on September 23, 2026, was still running summer hours until Columbus Day weekend, and the fall and winter sheet the village posted for the cold months keeps Adams' to Saturdays and Sundays, Blenheim Hill and Liberty Rock to Friday through Sunday, and only the Cornell Avenue shops open every day, with every shop dark on Thanksgiving, on Christmas and on New Year's. That archived homepage also says gift certificates can be used in any or all of the bookshops, and a separate FAQ page captured the same day says each store has its own buying preferences, so phone before you arrive with boxes to sell.
Antiquarian and used bookshopWm. H. Adams' Antiquarian Books
602 Main St, Hobart, NY 13788
The first bookshop in the Book Village by the account of its own page on the village site, Adams' spreads 17th- to 20th-century stock over three floors, and its website, whabooks.com, says many of the books were printed before 1850 or deal with events before then, across Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, art, religion, Judaica, poetry and local history. That site, as archived on July 11, 2026, gave summer hours through Labor Day of every day from 11am to 5pm, and its winter notice matches the village's fall and winter sheet, with visits at other times arranged by message on 607-538-9080. The same notice advertises what the shop calls its annual Thanksgiving weekend sale, on the Friday-to-Sunday weekend after Thanksgiving, with all books on all three floors 30% off. Secret NYC's April 20, 2026 guide to the Catskills Book Trail listed it among the Hobart stops.
Hours: Sat–Sun 11:30am–4:30pmWebsite Used and scarce booksLiberty Rock Books
678 Main St, Hobart, NY 13788
Self-described "broad generalists," Liberty Rock Books fills a 5,000-square-foot building on Main Street, and an August 24, 2025 Islands feature on the village said it has been amassing its collection of used books for decades, alongside new bestsellers, vintage postcards and jazz records. Its entry on the Book Village homepage, archived on September 23, 2026, adds long runs of 19th- and 20th-century children's books, art books, science fiction and religion, plus an art gallery and a consignment room where several outside vendors sell books and other items. The village's cold-season sheet lists it Friday from noon to 5pm and weekends from 10am to 5pm, with holiday Mondays 10am to 3pm, but the shop's own page on that site still gives Saturday and Sunday only, so phone 607-538-1760 before a Friday visit.
New and used bookshopBlenheim Hill Books
698 Main St, Suite A, Hobart, NY 13788
The shop's About page says its owners, Barbara Balliet and Cheryl Clarke, bought a house in Hobart in 2005 and the store in 2009, and a September 23, 2026 capture of the village homepage says the stock blends new and used books. The subjects it named run from fiction, poetry, biography and women's studies to children's books, mysteries, cooking, gardening, military history, LGBT titles, photography and architecture. When Secret NYC wrote up the Catskills Book Trail on April 20, 2026, it sent readers here for the poetry and history sections. For the cold months the village sheet gives Friday through Sunday, 11am to 5pm, and holiday Mondays from 11:30am to 3pm, while the About page says weekends only, 10am to 5pm, after Columbus Day, so call 607-538-9222 before a Friday trip.
Where can I find cheap used books in Hobart?
Aim for Adams' on the weekend after Thanksgiving, when the sale the shop bills as annual takes 30% off every book in the building from Friday to Sunday, and the Book Village site, in its September 2026 snapshot, has Adams' three floors covering all price levels. Up Route 10 in Stamford, the specials lists C.O.R.E. Values posts on Facebook have marked down books in many of their 2026 editions, so read the latest one before you drive over.
Where do I sell used books in Hobart?
The village FAQ answers it directly: each bookshop has its own buying preferences, some take only particular categories, editions or titles, and sellers are asked to contact the shops one by one. Liberty Rock also runs a consignment room for outside vendors, per its entry on the village homepage archived in September 2026, which is worth raising if you own a specialty run. Before calling anyone, run your shelf through BiblioScan: one photo yields a resale estimate per spine, which splits the stack between titles to pitch to one of these shops and a remainder for eBay, Amazon or a buyback site such as BookScouter.
Which day is best for book hunting in Hobart?
A Saturday or Sunday, from noon to 4pm. Under the fall and winter sheet, Adams', Blenheim Hill, Liberty Rock and the Cornell Avenue shops are all open across that window on both weekend days, and LionEyes in Stamford keeps the same four hours from Thursday to Sunday. Friday loses Adams', and Monday through Thursday leave only Cornell Avenue in Hobart, which keeps its doors open daily from 11 to 5. Holiday Mondays bring three of the Main Street shops back for shorter hours, but every shop is closed on Thanksgiving Day, on Christmas Day and on New Year's Day.