About us

KC Midwest Books

Who we are

KC Midwest Books is a small, family-run bookselling business in Leawood, in the Kansas City area. We've sold on AbeBooks since June 2024, and we're still finding things in boxes we thought we had already sorted.

What we collect and sell

About 10,000 books and several thousand catalogs, with more than 1,500 listed online. We lean toward medicine, neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry, science, philosophy, literature, history and art. Some are antiquarian, some are scholarly, and some are simply strange.

Why books matter

A book records what someone knew, or believed, at a particular moment. It also records who owned it, what they underlined, and how it was bound. We sell the text and the object.

Our approach

We describe condition plainly, photograph what matters, and treat each copy as its own book rather than one of many. If a listing doesn't answer your question, write to us.