As the book-buying public shifts their cash to the big chains and Amazon, independent book stores have become a dying breed. If you value the kind of bookstore where the owner’s stamp is clearly seen, where the clerks’ enthusiasms are on display, go to Book Soup. Here you’ll find small-press books sharing space with mainstream blockbusters. As expected, you’ll find...

This little English-style cottage is packed with first editions. While they display the literary greats of the modern world, they also have a wide selection of American and English mysteries, as well as books made into films. In addition to the posted hours, they also can be contacted for private appointments – something celebrities like Nicole Kidman, Bono, Mel Gibson,...

If esoteric and macabre antiques and curios are what tickles your fancy, this shop has it in spades. Necromance features ample amounts of taxidermy, various anatomical knick knacks, and general accoutrements for the aging goth reflecting on his or her mortality. Vintage Victorian keepsakes include lockets of lost loved ones, used opium pipes, and genuine poison bottles from days of...

Off the Wall Antiques has everything you never knew you wanted: a bicycle shaped like a horse, a scale model Boeing jet and a mysteriously large metal fishing bobber with levers. These are just some of the things this truly unique place has to offer. The prices reflect the one-of-a-kind nature of the merchandise, but whatever you walk away with,...

Samuel French is no ordinary bookstore. It specializes in all printed word related to film or acting, whether it be screenplays, plays, biographies, writer’s stories from the trenches, or guides to picking out a good spaghetti western. With dimly lit fluorescent lighting, the atmosphere is completely conducive to browsing for that hard to find screenplay, or simply perusing the endless racks...