After several years of effort, we are excited to announce our hours are shifting to full time at the Leo as we work to complete our move. This change goes into effect August 1! We are closed on July 31.
The KSRB 1st floor area and rare room are open...
Salt Lake City’s downtown population is expected to double in the next two years. But it comes at a cost.
The new KSRB Children's Reading Room & first floor bookstore opens at The Leonardo! The Salt Lake Tribune covered the news.
read more about Utah bookstore legend Ken Sanders continues to make his lifelong dreams come true
After months of detailed deliberation by all involved, the lease & permanent move to The Leonardo was approved by the City Council on Dec 7, 2021. Special thanks go out to everyone who took part in this endeavor, including the attention of Mayor Erin Mendenhall. The Leonardo is located just...
read more about December 2021 - New Lease at The Leonardo Museum Signed
The 268 S 200 E Ken Sanders Rare Books location (along with the rest of the block) makes plans to move following a sale to residential developer Ivory Homes. The Salt Lake Tribune covered the news.
KSRB needs you!
To best support the shop at this time, contributions are being collected through our new GoFundMe page. (Click "website") ↑ ↑ ↑
KSRB is an integral part of the very fabric of Utah’s culture, and well known beyond our state borders. We are under very real threats, most immediately with the loss...
A HOLE IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN
By Ken Sanders
I opened my current bookshop in downtown Salt Lake in 1997. Although I had seen numerous INTERNET PROPERTIES signs all over downtown, I didn’t yet know who or what Vasilios Priskos might be. I couldn’t even pronounce his name. Newly...
May Swenson
Poetry is Pleasure
by Ken Sanders
"In 1913 Swedish emigrants Dan and Margaret Swenson gave birth to a daughter in Logan, Utah. The slender, pale, blue-eyed blond could memorize and recite long poems by the age of three, but spoke only Swedish until she entered first grade. Growing up with...
read more about L-25: Reference Sources for Researching Rare Books
KSRB appreciates the outpouring of support from the community regarding the recent article in The Salt Lake Tribune (link above) concerning our future.
“Through Cosmic Aeroplane Books and Records, Dream Garden Press, and Ken Sanders Rare Books, I have been operating a retail bookshop and publishing company in downtown Salt Lake...
Ken Sanders Rare Books has 15,000 titles listed on our website but 100,000 books—on 7ft shelves and in scattered stacks—between our brick-and-mortar walls. Our lives have become very digital lately, but today we’re announcing a safe & secure welcome back to the bookshop. Whether you want to compile a stack...
We often get asked if we purchase books. This guide answers some frequently asked questions and serves as a reference for potential sellers.
DOES KEN SANDERS RARE BOOKS BUY BOOKS?
Yes. However, well over 90% of the books offered to us in a given day or week are rejected by...