Company Information
Meta Books is a general full service used book store selling used books, books on CD, and carefully chosen superior remaindered books (new books which did not sell out their initial press run). Meta Books stocks books in almost every category imaginable, from art to Washington state history; cookbooks, children's books, literature, mysteries, gardening and home improvements, mountaineering, kayaking, fishing and chess; automobiles and motorcycles, foreign language and maritime, military history, poetry and popular fiction. New books are added daily, so the inventory is constantly changing. Near the front of the store, a "new books" section (new to the store, that is) allows customers to view books that have been added to the inventory since their last visit. Meta Books also sells signed modern first editions, out of print and rare and desirable books on all subjects.
Meta Books also buys and accepts select books for cash or trade credit. Reader's Digest books, encyclopedias, romance novels and most magazines are not being sought at this time. Good books in excellent condition about anything, and specifically about Tacoma, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, maritime, sailing, literature, history, military and paperback science fiction are categories we are looking for at the present time.
Meta Books was formed by Tim Lohraff, a trial attorney with 20 years experience in criminal defense and federal civil rights. Tim lived and worked in Chicago the first 14 years of his legal career, where he was an assistant public defender at the Cook County Public Defender's Office. After seven years as a trial attorney at the public defender's office, Tim joined the People's Law Office in Chicago, becoming a partner, where he specialized in death penalty appeals, criminal defense and federal civil rights litigation. Tim represented Miguel Castillo, a wrongly convicted man who was freed after spending 11 years in Illinois prisons for a crime he did not committ, and also Aaron Patterson, who was exonerated and released from death row in Illinois. After moving to Seattle with his wife Jeanette Nyden, in 2002, Tim worked as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in downtown Seattle representing clients in federal court in the Western District of Washington in both Seattle and Tacoma. Tim continues to practice federal criminal defense work part-time and run Meta Books full-time.