Welcome to Collected Works Bookstore!

Front DoorCollected Works is an independent and locally-owned business, located on the corner of Galisteo & Water Streets in downtown Santa Fe, just blocks from the historic Plaza.

We're a full-service general bookstore with an inventory of over 30,000 titles, including a large selection of local travel, Southwest and Native American history, art and architecture, poetry, and children's books. Co-owners Dorothy Massey and her daughter Mary Wolf hope to see you in the store soon!

Here on our website, you can order books for delivery to your home or for pickup at the store. You can also sign up for our newsletter to receive emails about our upcoming events.

Our coffeehouse is now open!
--organic coffee from Aroma Coffee, roasted here in Santa Fe
--muffins, cookies, coffeecake & pie from Harry's Roadhouse
--pastries and sandwiches from Le Zodiac Cafe
--seating indoors or outside on our patio

Stephen Fried - Appetite for America -- at the La Fonda Hotel

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 6:00pm
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 8:00pm

Appetite for AmericaCollected Works is proud to co-present Stephen Fried, author of Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West. This event will be held in the La Terraza Room at the La Fonda on the Plaza.

The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations—from the 1880s all the way through World War II—and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the founding father of the nation’s service industry, whose remarkable family business civilized the West and introduced America to Americans.

Appetite for America is the incredible real-life story of Fred Harvey—told in depth for the first time ever—as well as the story of this country’s expansion into the Wild West of Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, of the great days of the railroad, of a time when a deal could still be made with a handshake and the United States was still uniting. As a young immigrant, Fred Harvey worked his way up from dishwasher to household name: He was Ray Kroc before McDonald’s, J. Willard Marriott before Marriott Hotels, Howard Schultz before Starbucks. His eating houses and hotels along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad (including historic lodges still in use at the Grand Canyon) were patronized by princes, presidents, and countless ordinary travelers looking for the best cup of coffee in the country. Harvey’s staff of carefully screened single young women—the celebrated Harvey Girls—were the country’s first female workforce and became genuine Americana, even inspiring an MGM musical starring Judy Garland.

With the verve and passion of Fred Harvey himself, Stephen Fried tells the story of how this visionary built his business from a single lunch counter into a family empire whose marketing and innovations we still encounter in myriad ways. Inspiring, instructive, and hugely entertaining, Appetite for America is historical biography that is as richly rewarding as a slice of fresh apple pie—and every bit as satisfying.

Artist's Reception - Page Allen

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 6:00pm
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 8:00pm

A reception for Page Allen, whose work will be on display at the store for the month of September.