Est. 2019 · Dhaka
The shop for books
that have already
been read once.
Second Verse sells used, old and out-of-print books. Every copy is inspected, graded and described by hand — so you know what the spine looks like before it arrives, not after.
- Titles
- 33
- Genres
- 10
- Oldest
- 800 BC
This week on the front table
Featured & freshly shelved
The copies we would hand you if you walked in and said “something good, nothing new”.
Why buy used
A book that has been read is a book that has been tested
Nobody has read next year's hardback yet. The people who loved this one have, and left the evidence: a creased spine at the chapter that kept them up, a pencil note in the margin of the passage that changed something. That is the part you cannot buy new.
What you get with every order
- Honest grading. Our five-grade scale, applied by hand, with a written note on what we found.
- Written condition notes. Not a template. Actual sentences about that copy's corners.
- Wrapped in paper, not plastic. Cardboard, kraft paper, no bubble wrap.
- A bookmark. Always. Sometimes two.
1928
Swann’s Way
1942
The Stranger
2011
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
1962
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
180
Meditations
1922
The Waste Land
Six from the current stock · click any cover
Browse
Pick a shelf
The shop is organised the way you would organise it at home — by what you feel like reading, not by ISBN.
“A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out.”