Rhino Booksellers

Great book store in a restoration area of the city, near the Underground coffee shop. The staff is extremely nice and very helpful. The special editions or rare prints are locked up in the back – just ask for access. The sci-​fi selection is pretty good and the philosophy section wasn’t bad. A pretty large selection of diverse books.

Very cool shop, busy with book lovers, and a fair price for the item. Decently organized for the space and shelving the storefront has. Definitely will be back there when we’re in or passing through Nashville. Tourists: check this place out.

This was the coolest used bookstore I have ever visited. It’s lined floor to ceiling with books. Well organized and has a great used book smell to the place. The manager was very knowledgable and helpful. I had a great time talking to him about the authors that I enjoy reading.

Really cool place. run by nice, helpful, knowledgeable owners. Great music section (one owner is a songwriter… nashville, right?). terrific rare book room in the back too. I stop at this place whenever I’m in town… always worthwhile.

This little place is really great! I have been looking for Pearl S Buck books (my dad did a pretty good job of cleaning out every used bookstore in Nashville) and when I came to visit, he brought me to this little gem. I found a hard-​to-​find Buck book and the guys gave me a great price.
It is exactly how you picture a great used bookstore to be– shelves and shelves and shelves of books with books stuffed in nooks and crannies everywhere. The store is also much bigger than it appears from the front. I just kept wandering further and further back. It’s also pretty well organized.
I didn’t know about the locked room with first editions… next time I’m in town I will check that out!
Really, you could spend quite a while in here browsing and finding all sorts of treasures. It has a lot to offer!

Just when I thought Rhino couldn’t get much better, I discovered the tiny classics room. And then the the guy working there showed me the locked back room, which is full of rare books and first editions, from «On the Road» to «Harry Potter.» He was a really nice guy, but I couldn’t help but be a little jealous of him for getting to spend his days in the presence of Rhino’s great collection of hard-​to-​find books. It’s obvious that the owner and staff of Rhino love books. The other customers were all grad student or history buff-​types with bad ties and scuffed-​up shoes. In other words, they were perfect.
The setup is kind of confusing and not all of the sections are alphabetized, so I’d recommend asking a staff member for help if you’re looking for something specific. Prices are very reasonable: $ 4-​$ 6 paperbacks and $ 9-​$ 15 hardbacks. I was surprised not to find any W.C. Williams or Stephen Dunn in the poetry section, and only one Virginia Woolf novel in the fiction section, so the selection might be kind of random and unpredictable (which makes sense for a used bookstore.) But I’ll definitely back when I have a few spare hours to spend looking around.
Unique attractions include a box of old Dr. Seuss books, and entire sections devoted to Sherlock Holmes, Native Americans, and mysteries.

Rhino is probably the least pretentious little used bookstore, and yes, this is a good thing. They have a nice location on Charlotte, and their presence there is paving the way for more good stores to move in. I didn’t ever go to their old location on Murphy, and I feel kind of guilty about that, but I really like a lot of things about this store.
They have a good collection of books, both regular used books and collector’s pieces. I was impressed by some of the hard to come by photography books.
It’s in one of the old store buildings on Charlotte, so it has that nice, old building/​old books vibe.

I love this bookstore. I know, I know… I always love bookstores. It’s pretty hard to rub me the wrong way if you’re a local, independent seller of books or CDs, but Rhino is a genuinely awesome place to shop. The guys who run Rhino are very knowledgeable and approachable, and, while one of them seems a bit more ornery than the other, they both always get excited when you ask them about books.
I went into Rhino today without anything specific in mind. I have been trying to hunt down a copy of Michael Moorcock’s «Behold the Man» for a while, and though they didn’t have it (no biggie… nobody ever does), they found it on Amazon for me for just $ 0.84. They have thousands of books shelved in a pretty organized manner, and their sections range from extremely general (Sci-​Fi, etc.) to very specific (Furniture Renovation, etc.).
When it comes to popular books, the guys at Rhino typically have several different editions; that way, you can buy a cheap paperback for yourself or spring for a collector’s edition as a gift or an investment. I thumbed through a collection of Annie Leibowitz photography for a while before perusing Vonnegut’s work. I ended up buying a copy of «Cat’s Cradle,» of which they had a handful of copies.
Rhino is located in kind of a random spot… I wouldn’t normally think of Charlotte Ave. when it comes to really neat bookstores. But this place is genuinely the coolest. They play great World and folk music, and there are a few comfy chairs where you can nestle down and check out your copy of Poe before purchasing it. They also have a sale going on right now: buy three books, get one free! Pretty sweet deal. I’d check this place out if I were you.