Bookstore Review: Brattle Book Shop is Used Book Heaven

Haley Houseman March 10, 2015

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Words and Illustration by Haley Houseman.
If you’re looking to fall down the rabbit hole of beatified vintage volumes, Boston's oldest bookstore Brattle Book Shop will keep you enthralled for hours. They specialize in lovely pre-loved books, especially classic editions and first editions. Not pandering to the casual consumer of paperback fiction, prepared to be dazzled by floors of gilt spines and long forgotten hard covers that never graced a best-seller list (and perhaps are all the better for it). One of America's oldest bookshops—the Brattle Book Shop been in operation since 1825—it is lo...

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