Our Story

Once Upon a MQ Book started in 2019

Once Upon a MQ Book started at a market where we were selling some of our books as well as books donated to us.

We soon realised that there was a big need for second-hand books, which made us decide to specialise in selling second hand books at markets and we started advertising them online.

Now we mostly sell online to customers across the country at affordable prices. This is a great alternative to buying new expensive books.

We always go the extra mile for our customers

If you need a specific book, we do our best to try and find them for you

Do you have second hand books to sell?

How the process works:
If you are in our area, you can either bring the books to us or we can come and inspect the books at your place.
We double check the condition of the books, we double check if the books have covers, we look if all the pages are in tact and included , (we look for marks, tears etc) .
We inspect every side of the books to ensure they are in resellable condition..
We then make you a offer for the books and you can decide if you accept or decline.

If you are not in the East Rand (Gauteng) area, you can send us pictures of the front, back sides and insides of the books and you have to guarantee that all the pages are still there and that the pages are in tact (no tearing pages or pages cut out etc) based on this we will give you a offer including courier costs
Terms & Conditions apply, please contact us in regards with more information on how this process works

Do you have second hand books to trade?

The process works more or less the same as the buying of books, the only difference is that we don't offer you money.

You can exchange your books for the same value that we would have offered you if you were to sell them