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San Francisco, California

Short Story Vending Machine

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.
Press with typesetting
Palmyra, New York

Grandin Printing Shop

The press that first printed the Book of Mormon.
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In 1964, You Could Buy Magazines From a Street Dalek

Your new favorite traveling bookseller.
Michael Waters June 12, 2017
New York, New York

Mysterious Bookshop

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.
Birmingham, Alabama

Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.
The door to Otto Penzler’s office in the Mysterious Bookshop, marked by police tape.
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How the Owner of the Greatest Mystery Bookstore Pulled the Genre Out of the Muck

"This is literature. It's not just puzzles, it's not just telling a nice story."
Dan Nosowitz May 22, 2017
The interiors of the bookstore.
Lisbon, Portugal

Livraria Bertrand

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.
Hamzeh AlMaaytah in his bookstore's storage room.
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A Jordan Bookseller's 24-Hour 'Emergency Room for the Mind'

At his bookstore in Amman, Hamzeh AlMaaytah administers life-affirming literature.
Shira Telushkin April 10, 2017
Brussels, Belgium

Cook & Book

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.
Catalan dish
Kensington, Maryland

Pauli Bellet Foundation

One of the largest collections of Catalan literature and cultural materials outside of Spain, created by a community of 1960s expats.
Permanently Closed
Sorting, circa 1912
Washington, D.C.

Government Printing Office

Need a hardcopy of the 50-title Code of Federal Regulations? This is the place.
Toad House.
Ladysmith, Wisconsin

Toad House

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.
Permanently Closed
Brazenhead, resurrected
New York, New York

Brazenhead Books

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.
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How I Found the 4 Hardest-to-Find Bookstores in the World

And, also, illustrated them.
Bob Eckstein October 4, 2016
East Lyme, Connecticut

Book Barn

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.
The Beat Museum in San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Beat Museum

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.
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Found: A Napoleonic War Diary Hiding in a Bookstore in Tasmania

No one knows how it got there.
Sarah Laskow May 10, 2016
In the rafters of the Book Barn, dating back to 1822
West Chester, Pennsylvania

Baldwin's Book Barn

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.