Brattle Book Store

Wednesday, August 22, 2007


This is the Brattle Book Store on West St. in downtown Boston. The bookstore is full of all kinds of old books and is a great place to look for old books. Here is a link to the store's history. The picture above of a book and a quill and ink pot hangs over the front door. The picture below is in a vacant lot next to the book store where they have an open air market of used books. I particularly liked the mural on the wall.



I don't know how they can afford to use this lot to sell books, land in the downtown area is so expensive and could be used to generate a lot more money as a parking lot or sold to a developer for a new building, but it is certainly much nicer being used as it currently is.

3 comments:

NorthBayPhoto said...

Wonderful photos. It's nice to see such a lovely outdoor market as opposed to a parking lot.

Fénix (Bostonscapes DP) said...

What a great post! The Brattle Book Store is such a wonderful place (carries an impressive stock of over 250,000 books, maps, prints, postcards and ephemeral items in all subjects!)

I really, really hope it will always stay the same.

Sonia said...

What a great place! I would love to be there and read well in English, too.

Fénix told me about your blog! I am glad she did!

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