Bookstores
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2024-07-12
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A Celebration of Independent Booksellers
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"Bookstores are treasure troves of knowledge and ideas, invaluable for the imagination, and often reflect their owners' personalities in ways internet behemoths could never re-create. In this book, photographer Horst A. Friedrichs opens the door to the world of bricks-and-mortar bookstores, showcasing their variety, quirkiness, and vitality with lavish photography. It celebrates the passion and commitment of the owners with interviews and anecdotes. Explore William Stout Books, a specialty store for architecture and art books in San Francisco, and Baldwin's Book Barn in Pennsylvania, a 5-story bookstore housed in a dairy barn open since the mid-1940s. Discover Gay's the Word, the UK's first and only dedicated LGBTQI bookshop and Livraria Lello, whose Art Deco interior is a temple to reading in the middle of Porto, Portugal. Some of the featured bookstores specialize in a certain genre, some are massive with vaulted ceilings, some are tiny and filled to the brim with books, some are in historic buildings that evoke a different time and place, and some are brand new, hightech, architect-designed spaces. What all the bookstores have in common is that they are all dedicated to spreading the written word to their communities." -- Amazon.com.
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FOREWORD -- Paper Towns P. 4 -- NEW YORK CITY -- The Strand P. 12 -- Spoonbill & Sugartown P. 22 -- Dashwood Books P. 26 -- Rizzoli P.32 -- Books Are Magic P. 36 -- SAN FRANCISCO -- City Lights Bookstore P. 40 -- Green Apple Books P. 48 -- William Stout Books P. 54 -- Dog Eared Books P. 58 -- PENNSYLVANIA -- Baldwin's Book Barn P. 64 -- LONDON -- Maggs Bros. P. 70 -- Heywood Hill P. 76 -- John Sandoe Books P. 84 -- Hurlingham Books P. 88 -- Gay's The Word P. 92 -- Daunt Books P. 96 -- Persephone Books P. 102 -- Tate Modern Shop P. 106 -- London Review Bookshop P. 112 -- Lutyens & Rubinstein P. 116 -- Word On The Water P. 120 -- AMSTERDAM -- MENDO P. 126 -- MAASTRICHT -- Boekhandel Dominicanen P. 132 -- PARIS -- Bouquinistes P. 138 -- Librairie Auguste Blaizot P. 144 -- Shakespeare and Company P. 150 -- COLOGNE -- Buchhandlung Walther Kӧnig P. 158 -- DÜSSELDORF -- Booxycle P. 166 -- HEIDELBERG -- artes liberales P. 168 -- HAMBURG -- Felix Jud P. 172 -- stories! P. 176 -- BERLIN -- Bücherbogen P. 180 -- Pro qm P. 186 -- do you read me?! P. 192 -- Bildband P. 196 -- MUNICH -- soda P. 202 -- Literatur Moths P. 206 -- VIENNA -- phil P. 210 -- Hartliebs Bücher P. 214 -- AnzenbergerGallery P. 218 -- Anna Jeller Buchhandlung P. 222 -- Buchhandlung Bernhard Riedl P. 226 -- Métamorphose P. 230 -- LISBON -- Livraria Ferin P. 232 -- Almedina Rato P. 238 -- PORTO -- Livraria Lello P . 244 -- Livraria Academica P. 248
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Independent bookstores are treasure houres for Ideas and the Imagination, places of refuge and solace In a bytesize world of fake news. Each store is an idiosyncratic reflection of their owners' obsessions and enthusiasms; some are legends in their own right. Renowned documentary photographer Horst A. Friedrichs captures the style and mood of almost fifty bookstores across the woeld, while writer Stuart Husband tells their syories. Featuring a foreword by best-selling author Nora Krug, this book celebrates the vital role that bookstores continue to play in opening minds, freeing imaginations and spreading the word.