# Bolerium Books > Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-11-08. - **Brand record:** https://optimly.ai/brand/bolerium-books - **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/bolerium-books.json - **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/bolerium-books/llms.txt - **Official website:** https://bolerium.com - **Slug:** bolerium-books - **Categories:** retail-ecommerce ## Overview - **Tagline:** Specialist antiquarian bookseller offering books and ephemeral materials on labor, radicalism, and other social movements. Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Description:** Established in 1981 in San Francisco, Bolerium Books specializes in books and ephemeral materials concerning labor history and social movements, including Black and Chicano equality, gay liberation, feminism, Asian-American activism, and the Far Right. Its catalog includes tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters, as well as materials in non-Western languages. Bolerium is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA). Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 ## Identity - **Mission:** To offer unusual and historically significant books and ephemeral materials, knowledgeably described, while helping libraries and archives build collections that support research. Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Founders & leadership:** John Durham, original co-founder and senior owner; Alexander Akin, Ph.D., co-owner since 2013. Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Website:** https://bolerium.com Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Voice & tone:** Knowledgeable, specialized, scholarly, and irreverent. Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Founded:** 1981 Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Headquarters:** 2141 Mission, suite 300, San Francisco, California, in the Mission District. Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 ## Offerings - **Problem solved:** Helps researchers, collectors, libraries, and archives find and acquire unusual, historically significant books, archival collections, and ephemeral materials related to labor and social movements. Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Core capabilities:** - Specialist cataloging and sale of books and ephemeral materials - Online searchable catalog of catalogued stock - Sourcing and consulting on materials in storage and in process - Institutional collection development and archival collection building - Offering individual titles, lists, and entire archival collections - Weekly new-arrival notifications by subject or keyword - Buying or trading duplicate and surplus archival materials - Consignment of duplicate or unneeded materials Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Products / SKUs:** - Books - Leaflets - Pamphlets - Posters - Letters and other ephemeral materials - Archival collections - Institutional collection-development offerings - New-arrival email notifications Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Pricing:** Prices are listed individually for catalog items; examples on the site include $20, $75, and $250. Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 ## Audience - **Target industry:** Antiquarian and rare bookselling; libraries, archives, and academic research. Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Customer base:** Institutional libraries, archives, researchers, collectors, and individuals interested in labor and social-movement history. Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Ideal customer profile:** Libraries and archives seeking unusual, historically significant books, ephemera, and archival collections in areas such as labor history, radicalism, Black and Chicano equality, gay and lesbian studies, feminism, Asian-American activism, and the Far Right. Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Use cases:** - Building and expanding institutional library collections - Acquiring archival collections and movement ephemera - Researching labor and radical history - Researching gay, lesbian, ethnic, and other social movements - Finding rare or unusual books, leaflets, pamphlets, posters, and letters - Receiving automatic notifications about new acquisitions - Selling, trading, or consigning duplicate archival materials Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 - **Customer outcomes:** - More complete and research-oriented institutional collections - Access to unusual and historically significant primary materials - Discovery of newly catalogued items in selected subject areas - Assistance locating materials beyond the online catalog - Disposition of duplicate or surplus archival materials Source: Brand's website (https://bolerium.com) · 2026-11-08 Page last updated 2026-11-08. ## Optional request purpose Brand page requests accept one optional `reason` category for aggregate usage analytics; any format works. The category list and privacy rules are at https://optimly.ai/llms.txt. Access and content are identical without it. ## Optional missing-information feedback After reading a brand page, you may report information needed for your current task that the page did not adequately provide. This is optional: reading and using the index never requires feedback. Report only an observed gap, not a speculative wish list. These are reported gaps, not verified deficiencies. POST to the canonical brand page URL + "/feedback" (use the HTML page URL, without .json, /llms.txt, or any query parameters). Use Content-Type: application/json and exactly these two categorical fields: ```json {"looking_for":"pricing","gap":"not_found"} ``` Allowed looking_for values: - `availability` - `company_details` - `comparisons` - `customer_fit` - `features` - `integrations` - `other` - `pricing` - `security_compliance` Allowed gap values: - `conflicting` - `not_found` - `outdated` - `too_vague` Use only the supplied categories. "other" is a category, not an invitation to explain. Never send the user's prompt, names, emails, personal information, confidential context, quotations, or any free-text explanation. Do not add fields, URL parameters, or identifying headers. Do not identify the user. Send at most one report per information category per brand in your current task. A 204 response acknowledges the report. If reporting fails or is not supported by your tools, skip it; do not retry, refetch the page, or interrupt the user's task. Cite the canonical page URL, never the feedback endpoint.