sellingbooks

Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade | Marvin Mondlin

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1️⃣Spent the most fun weekend with my family celebrating my nephew turning 13 and my niece turning 9 2️⃣ October Baseball! Go Bluejays!! ⚾️💙 3️⃣ Silent Bookclub with my bestie last night 4️⃣ Coffee and Wine ☕️🍷 5️⃣ It‘s FRIDAY!!

TheBookHippie 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 9h

Leftcoastzen Go Jays ! 7h

dabbe 💙💙💙 2h

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bibliothecarivs

King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller | Betsy Burton

Random book from our personal library.

Memoir by the co-founder of the famous Salt Lake City bookshop.

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JenlovesJT47

In Praise of Good Bookstores | Jeff Deutsch

allons à la librairie,
se perdre dans un bon livre —
nourriture pour ton âme.

let‘s go to the bookstore,
get lost in a good book —
food for your soul. ?

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #frenchhaiku #bibliophile

JenlovesJT47 @dabbe @TheBookHippie @DebInHawaii @lil1inblue @Kristy_K @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @bellabella @AnnCrystal @Reggie @jdiehr @vivastory @CBee @Mimi28 @Jari-chan @Itchyfeetreader @Susanita @kelly7990 @ImperfectCJ @The_Book_Ninja 1mo

dabbe #allthefeels 🩵🩷💛 1mo

Jari-chan 💖💖💖 1mo

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TheBookHippie très magnifique 1mo

lil1inblue 🩵😍🩵 1mo

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🪄📚🤩🐝📚. 1mo

DebinHawaii 💛📚💛🐝💛 Love it! 1mo

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LitsyEvents

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore | Evan Friss

@bennettbookworm has created a masterpiece in a document for all littens to use! Traveling? You can explore what bookshops are in your area and add bookshops to the doc!
original post:
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2899239

BennettBookworm Thank you so much for reposting, and for the kind words!! 1mo

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BennettBookworm

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore | Evan Friss

Confession: This was on my to-do list for 3 years. Now I‘m so excited to see it GROW as Littens add to this list of our fave bookstores around the world. If you‘re traveling, you can use the list to see if there‘s a cool bookstore you‘d like to visit!🗺️🤓

Please add YOUR faves! Thanks to all who contributed 3 years ago… happy exploring!

SHOUTOUT to my sister who opened a new bookstore THIS YEAR!! Bookish Notions- Media, PA!! 🥳 @LiteraryinPA

Julsmarshall, wanderinglynn, Hooked_on_books, BarkingMadRead, AmyG, TheBookHippie, Amiable, LeahBergen, Sharpeipup, shortsarahrose, CaitZ, Bklover, TrishB, Deblovestoread, Eggs, Chrissyreadit, Lands, BekaReid, TheQuietQuill, Liz_M, Nessavamusic, kstadt929, Slajaunie, Ruthiella, jdiehr, TheSpineView, hissingpotatoes, dabbe, IndoorDame, Scochrane26, TheAromaofBooks, Jess861, Twainy, peanutnine, BookBosomed1, Zuhkeeyah, ETALTON

BennettBookworm https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bhrLSxrlmKcF3aIUlraHGNQ5XedXvextPbfd3RYeQgw/... 2mo

BennettBookworm @LitsyEvents 2mo

BekaReid Love this! I just added several 📚🤗 2mo

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charl08 I split the UK into nations and added some more. Tagging @squirrelbrain incase she can add some more here (and hasn't seen already!) 1mo

Amiable Yay!! I was just talking to @TheBookHippie about this!! 1mo

Itchyfeetreader Oh I will go back and add …. 1mo

Chrissyreadit 💛💛💛💛 1mo

TheBookHippie @Amiable yay!!!!! 1mo

Liz_M Brooklyn is better represented, now. Thanks for sharing the list! @Kitta, what did I miss? I haven't started on Manhattan or Queens yet. (edited) 1mo

wanderinglynn How awesome! And congrats to your sister! 🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1mo

squirrelbrain Thanks @charl08 - I‘ll add some once I‘m back from my hols! 1mo

dabbe Fabulous idea! I added a few! 💜🩶🧡 1mo

LeahBergen This is such a wonderful idea!! 👏👏 1mo

Hooked_on_books I can‘t manage to get the doc to let me add any, so I‘ll mention here: Beach Books in Seaside, OR, Cannon Beach Book Company in Cannon Beach, OR, and Basically Books in Hilo, HI. 1mo

staci.reads This is awesome! I added a bunch from the Midwest and a few from the southeast! 1mo

Ruthiella Fantastic! I added Vromans, Skylight and Cellar Door Books for California and Smith Family Bookstore for Oregon. 1mo

monalyisha This is going to be such a useful tool! I didn‘t see any listed for my state yet, so I‘ll go in and add my favorite local RI shops once my laptop‘s charged up. 😉 Fabulous idea! Thanks for dreaming it up! 1mo

monalyisha @Amiable, I want to go in and add an asterisk to The Book Barn in support to show how much I love it! …Part of me thinks asterisks might be helpful (like ratings/favoriting) but that‘s probably complicating things unnecessarily. I‘m good at complicating things. 😅 1mo

monalyisha @BennettBookworm Are the bunny pics from your sister‘s bookstore? If so, I think we might be kindred?!?! 1mo

lil1inblue Oh, how wonderful! This is amazing! 😍 1mo

TheKidUpstairs Love this! I'll add my favourite Ontario bookstores soon! 1mo

Faranae Would you mind terribly if I added headings that work with the table of contents function? This would make it a quick click for folks to get to the country they wanted to see. 1mo

BennettBookworm @Faranae Yes please!! I wanted to but forgot how 😄 1mo

Faranae @BennettBookworm Happy to help! And Google keep messing about with the functions of Google Docs, so probably the way you are used to disappeared or got moved. ☠ 1mo

Bklover What a wonderful idea!! 1mo

PuddleJumper Added some for the UK. What a great idea! Thanks for doing this 1mo

BennettBookworm @Hooked_on_books Thanks, I‘ve added those now!! 1mo

BennettBookworm @monalyisha Thank you so much!! 😍😍😍And actually the photos are Top L: my sister‘s, Bookish Notions; Top R: Daunt Books in London; Bottom L: Last Bookstore in Los Angeles; and Bottom R with the bunnies: Scattered Books in Chappaqua, NY!! 🐰🤩💕📚 1mo

BennettBookworm Thank you all SO MUCH for the positive vibes and for adding so much! This rocks 🙏🏻 @BekaReid @charl08 @Amiable @Itchyfeetreader @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie @Liz_M @squirrelbrain @wanderinglynn @dabbe @LeahBergen @staci.reads @Ruthiella @lil1inblue @TheKidUpstairs @Bklover @PuddleJumper 1mo

Catsandbooks This is such an awesome idea! Thank you for sharing! ❤️ 1mo

Bookperson96 🙂👍Amazing idea. @BennettBookworm 1mo

Bookperson96 Wishing you a prosperous and joyful time with your bookstore❣️🙂 @LiteraryinPA (edited) 1mo

BennettBookworm Thank you!! @Catsandbooks @Bookperson96 1mo

Bookperson96 You‘re welcome! 🙂📚📍💗 @BennetBookworm 1mo

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Mattsbookaday

Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller | Oliver Darkshire

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Once Upon a Tome, by Oliver Darkshire (2022)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Premise: A memoir about a young man‘s apprenticeship at an esteemed London antiquarian book dealer.

Review: I discovered the author through his recent novel and was intrigued to learn that he first became known for his unique and humorous takes on a notoriously staid trade. ⬇️

Mattsbookaday This book is comprised of short vignettes, and while they are as charming and fun as expected, they also felt a bit rushed in places. But overall this was super fun.

Bookish Pair: Darkshire‘s recent novel Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil (2025). 2mo

Aims42 This was such a fun palate cleanser between heavier reads 👍 2mo

Mattsbookaday @Aims42 that‘s exactly how I used it too! 2mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore | Evan Friss

so-so

Meh, this one is mostly my fault, but it did help me figure out the kind of bookstore book I would be more interested in reading in the future.
Understandably, the early chapters of the book, talking about the early history of American bookstores are also tied in with early American history, and maybe it's that next-door-neighbour Canadian thing, but I've kind of had my fill of American history. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I did love when the book started focusing in on later bookshops and the personalities and movements involved such as:
Gotham Book Mart - freedom of expression, contesting censors, supporting writers
Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop - gay pride, community support
Drum & Spear - activism and education against racism, segregation 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Didn't feel much like reading about Nazis, but the chapter titled The Aryan Bookstore did also discuss co-evolving socialist and communist, radical bookstores, supporting movements for various people's rights.
Unavoidably, the book covers the role in American bookstore history played by Barnes and Noble and Amazon Books, but not being American, not loving chain or mall or supersized bookstores or what Amazon has done, I was less interested 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 in these chapters.

Going forward, I think I need to look for individual independent book shop histories, those with character, and/or focused on quirky niche topics, or a history of revolution and activism or social/community support.
Happy to receive recommendations! 😁

⚠️Suicide attempt, homophobia, antisemitism, racism 2mo

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Amiable

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore | Evan Friss

Shoutout to my local indie: RJ Julia in Madison, CT!
And The Book Barn in Niantic.
And Bank Square Books in Mystic.
And Northshire Books in Manchester, VT.
And The Strand in NYC. …

Ah, Hell, who am I kidding? Gimme ALL the bookstores… 😍 this is why I shop at Bookshop.org. So I can spread the love…

#serenesaturdays

TheBookHippie

kspenmoll I love this shout out! In CT let me add Riverbend bookstore- their main store is in Glastonbury, their smaller store in West Hartford. And yes to every Indio bookstore everywhere! 2mo

Amiable @kspenmoll I‘ll have to stop at Riverbend the next time I take my car up to Liberty Mazda in Hartford for service! I usually come home along Route 2 and could stop in Glastonbury. 2mo

kspenmoll @Amiable Great idea! Next time! We do go to RJ Julia‘s in Madison every summer. It‘s a family tradition! 2mo

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TheBookHippie Making LOOOOONG list of bookstores to visit ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 2mo

Amiable @TheBookHippie Someone on here was going to compile a list of “favorite Litsy bookstores” at one point —I don‘t think they ever did and I forget who it was. But I‘d love to see a list like that! 2mo

TheBookHippie @Amiable YESSSSS!!!!!! 2mo

dabbe 🧡🩶💛 2mo

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