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The Lantern has been selling used and rare books since 1977. The selection is eclectic and contains an assortment of donated hardcovers, paperbacks, classical and popular vinyl records, and compact discs. Proceeds go toward the Bryn Mawr College scholarship fund, which helps bright young women go to college.
Photos by the Murrell Creative Group, used with permission.
Since Allan Stypeck purchased Second Story Books in 1973, it has grown to one of the largest used and rare bookstores in the world. Two locations in the Washington metropolitan area, both on Metro’s Red Line, house over a million books in all categories as well as collectible manuscripts, maps, ephemera, prints, and posters.
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore located on historic Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. with three floors of used books, first editions, and rare books. The store is stuffed with books on everything imaginable and is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America.
The Book Stop has been buying, selling, and trading used books in Tucson since 1967. Owners Tina Bailey and Claire Fellows began working here in the late 1970s and became the store’s third owners in 1992, until Bailey’s death in 2001. The nearly 3,000-square-foot space holds close to 100,000 titles.
Mostly Books sells new and used books, and also accepts e-book and audiobook orders through the store’s website.
After his father sold him the store for just one dollar, Bob Oldfather opened Bookmans in 1976. It has since become the largest independent bookseller in Arizona. Now with six stores in Tucson, Phoenix, Mesa, and Flagstaff, Bookmans Entertainment Exchange buys, sells, and trades used books, magazines, comics, music, movies, video games, musical instruments, and more.
After working in Santa Cruz at Logos Books for twenty years, Steve L. opened Dauphine Street books in 1994. The shop offers used antiquarian books of all kinds, with an emphasis on literature, local history, art, African American studies, cookbooks, and the metaphysical.
Crecent City Books carries new, used, out-of-print, and rare books, as well as antique maps and prints from all over the world. The store has been located in a historic townhouse in the French Quarter since 1992 and is full of books and prints spanning the last five hundred years. Their oldest prints are from the mid-thirteenth century, thus predating the printing press.
Blue Cypress Books buys, sells, and trades a wide range of classic and contemporary fiction, poetry, art and photography, science fiction and mystery, antiquarian and collectibles, and all genres of nonfiction. The shop is home to the largest collection of secondhand children’s books, and also stocks new and secondhand New Orleans and Louisiana fiction and history.
Beckham's Bookshop has been selling secondhand books in the French Quarter since 1967. The two-story shop contains fifty to sixty thousand books, and places a particular emphasis on histories, architecture, literature, music, and cooking.
