I mentioned W H Smith because a few years ago they had a major reorganisation and I thought that perhaps the lease on the Paris shop had been given up.
I used to buy books from a very good shop in the Boulevard Montparnasse, which had a number of English writers in translation but, for books in English, the most extensive collection I have come across in a European location was in the Lion Bookshop in Rome.
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I've recently discovered a Book Barn between Coventry and Nuneaton which is stuffed full of second hand books. It's near a village and used to be a farm, but they converted the place to house books. It also has a very nice coffee shop where you can sit and sip and read. Excellent.
Near of my home there is city library.. I really got a much advantage of that library..and there is cool collection books in the library
My favorite is Powell's Bookstore on 57th Street near the University of Chicago.
Powell's is my favorite as well. I don't get down there as often as I used to, but the memories linger.
The Chicago Theological Seminary bookstore is also very good, but the books are all new. Its new location is better than the old location, but I loved the old location in the basement. I even built our own bookcases out of 1 by 8 boards in imitation of what was in that bookstore and put them in the basement.
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If I lived nearer to Portland I would certainly pay repeated visits to Powell's. I think it is the largest used bookstore in the U.S., maybe that was the world.
Blackwells, and Waterstones. My loves. And Barter Books in Alnwick, Northumberland.
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The Blackwells in Charing Cross Road. London has closed and replaced by a branch in Holborn, which is a terrible disappointment: a cafe with a few bookshelves on the wall.
Oxford Blackwells will always be my favourite, though.
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