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The owner of Marx Books, John N. Marx, is a recently retired chemistry professor from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and is an avid book collector on the side, with about 40,000 science fiction and fantasy items in his personal library. For 37 years he taught organic chemistry and did research in the synthesis of organic natural products. The business grew from obtaining many duplicate books when buying collections.

Marx Books has been in business since 1977 as a mail order seller of used books. It has been on the Web since January, 1997. It specializes in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery books, with scattered titles in other areas. Many Collector's Edition paperbacks and hardcovers are available, as are cheaper reading copies. Many digest and pulp magazines are also available. The stock includes nearly 25,000 books available on-line. Many books are not yet cataloged. Inquire if you don't see what you are searching for.

Here is an unsolicited poem written by a very good customer.

MARXBOOKS FANTASTIC INTERGALACTIC TRAVEL AGENCY

By Mark Adams - 2009.

Book a trip at the speed of thought

To forgotten realms where wizards fought.

Or take a tour through time and space

To future cities of the human race.

Visit fantastic places both far and near

Where alien spaceships and dragons appear.

Explore galaxies with names of candy bars

Where galactic federations span the stars.

From an Earthly shore to a Martian sea

Marxbooks takes you where you want to be.

Whether hero's quest or alien dream

Down roads traveled to sights unseen.

Come journey with us within the comforts of home

By way of the imagination to worlds unknown.