Best Used Book Store |
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| David Duda, Lauren Mollow, Brooke Duda, & Kelly Pyers of the Book Trader Cafe |  "The
ranks of New Haven's used bookstores have thinned a little in
recent years: Whitlock's on Broadway is gone, so too is the fine
Elm City Books, which had a good run on York Street a few years
back. But even if those stores were still around, the Book
Trader would be a worthy winner of this category. And even if
you couldn't buy a delicious sandwich or muffin here, it would
still be a major destination for book lovers. The key is
selectivity. The shelves are not weighted down by mediocrity,
but rather lifted up by good stuff. Some of it is obvious:
You'll get your Ian McEwan, your Kazuo Ishiguro, your Jonathan
Spence. Some of it is more obscure: Sitting on shelves in recent
weeks has been a first edition of John Ashbery's hard-to-find
novel, which he co-authored with James Schuyler. And you can
also buy a good paperback mystery or sci-fi adventure." |
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New Haven Advocate - May, 2005 |
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