Broadfoot’s of Wendell

This is a specialty book store with a focus on military history and the American Civil War. This is not a general used book store. Broadfood has been selling Civil War books for longer than many folks reading this review have been alive (including me and I’m in my late 30s)!
Broadfoot is a major publisher of Civil War titles and they also sell used Civil War books. This location is their storefront. And oh what a store it is! If you are a military history buff or student of the Civil War this is very literally heaven on earth.
The store isn’t fancy but it’s stocked with thousands of new and used books on the Civil War. The folks running the shop are friendly, welcoming, and exceedingly helpful. I spent 4 hours browsing and still didn’t see everything.
Prices are so reasonable to almost be absurd. They have books that sell for hundreds of dollars for $ 5, $ 10, $ 20, or $ 30 each. They also stock many rare highly collectible antiquarian books as well.
Though they have a huge selection of used Civil War titles, as a publisher Broadfoot also specializes in publishing large and often rare but critical primary source reference sets like the Official Records of the Rebellion. In their store many of these sets are heavily discounted from what they cost when ordering online or from other bookstores. Even better they have a scratch and dent section too. You can pick up sets most people would only ever see in a major University library for fractions of their street price.
If you are a book person and interested in the Civil War this place is a MUST SEE. Just be aware they have very limited hours on Wed and Fri only.
In this day of publishers and shops dying left and right and folks moving to eBooks places like Broadfoot are to be celebrated! I can’t wait to visit again soon.