Used Bookstores

[nonionay]

So what are the best used bookstores in Seattle?

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[mikigarrison.livejournal.com]

Third place books is awesome, although I will admit that I love the lake forest park one better than the ravenna one. Twice sold tales has several locations, and is great for genre paperbacks. Magus is also good. Abraxus had been my favorite for just the overall feel of the place (plus the best collection of history and science), but I'm pretty sure they've gone out of business.

[criada.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I pass Abraxas' empty husk every day on the bus, which makes me sad, since it has such an awesome name.

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Third Place in Ravenna is good, but they're pretty picky about the books they'll accept for trade. My first stop for trading and credit is always University Bookstore because the selection is huge, their trade-in policy is good, their credit's good, and you can use it for anything in the store, including stuff that's not books, which is great come holiday time. My usual hierarchy for trading in is U Books, then Twice Sold Tales or Third Place, then I donate, because at that point it's not worth it to get insulted by Half Price Books.

[shelly-rae.livejournal.com]

The Couth Buzzard on Greenwood at 85th. Elliot Bay Books. Are you selling or shopping?
Anon

[criada.livejournal.com]

Shopping. I has a paycheck! :-D

[phewfighter.livejournal.com]

Twice Sold Tales, aside from having great eclectic finds more than most places, are renowned for having cats in the stores, making any old lazy afternoon bookshopping greatly enhanced by the presence of fat tabbies lolling about in the nooks and crannies. The Capitol Hill branch was the setting of many a wild hunt before I moved to a different neighborhood.

Horizon Books was a delightful albeit cramped store in an old craftsman house on 15th Ave E on Cap Hill, a block north of Safeway. The cart holding $1 or less deals on the front stoop called out to me every time I walked past, and once up there, how can one not come in and chat with the owner? Sadly, That location closed, but the store apparently moved to Pike & 10th, according to this useful list (http://recollectionbooks.com/seattle.html).

That list reminded me about Seattle Mystery Bookstore - not sure how much of a used selection they have, I've never gone in despite it being on the same block where I work in Pioneer Square (and close to your workplace, too, if I'm not mistaken.) I can tell you their window seems to hold many an intriguing thriller.

[criada.livejournal.com]

I'm going to Twice Sold Tales today, because, I'm told, it's having a going-out-of-business sale. :-(

And yeah, Seattle Mystery Bookshop is right around the corner from me, and they do have used stuff there. (I found myself a nice old gothic, one of my vices.)

[quboworm.livejournal.com]

Very enlightening and beneficial to someone whose been out of the circuit for a long time.