Beale’s Best Book Shops
Also in Portland, for its plentiful supply, well chosen titles, and delightful, chaotic presentation:
Yes Books.
For their focus on food, their innovative combination of new and antiquarian fare, and for involvement with their audiences, Don and Samantha Hoyt Lindgren, Rabelais Books, Portland.
For its significant collection of basement-housed periodicals, its Books on Books section ( from which was pulled signed copies of A. Edward Newton’s Amenities of Book Collecting, and The Truth About Publishing by Stanley Unwin),
and all of the wonderfully
photogenic
books
gracing
the place (thank you Caroline)
De Wolfe and Wood in Alfred, Maine.
For its deceptively diminutive facade, and behind it the miles of shelf lined warrens, and the fact it provided me with an addition to my Auden collection, Northwood Books
in Northwood, New Hampshire. For similar reasons, and for taking pity on late arriving biblioholics, its sister store in Henniker, NH. manned by husband to the proprietess at Northwood: #6 Book Depot.
Ditto Pleasant Street Books in Woodstock, Vt. for keeping the lights on hours past normal,
for two more Auden titles (one On This Island signed by Joseph Blumenthal of Spiral Press fame …printer of said book), a bulging Lit Crit section, from which I extracted First Editions of Kenneth Burke’s A Grammar of Motives (in a VG DJ) Ford Madox Ford’s The English Novel (sadly without), and, from nearby Literature, a re-bound First of Aldous Huxley’s Mortal Coils…plus its roof:
