Nijhof & Lee in Amsterdam:

http://www.nijhoflee.nl/design/typography/

Collinge & Clark, London

The Gutenberg Museum Bookshop, Mainz

The bookstore at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City.

http://www.cooperhewitt.org/

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/

Many (most) museums have book (/gift) shops, this is a decent size and good for a browse.

Tim

http://www.magmabooks.com/

UK

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AL
lenart.pl

>Collinge & Clark, London

I went there on the basis of John Hudson’s earlier recommendation on Typophile,and found great stuff there for my work on Caslon. I highly recommend it.

Does anyone know why John hasn’t been posting on Typophile? I miss his knowledgeable and articulate voice here...

Great guys… keep them rolling in.

As recommended by Thierry Blancpain: In Zürich “orell füssli krauthammer at marktgasse 12 in the niederdorf (oldtown of zurich), its the biggest art books store here i know. not that many books specialised on type, but some. its near the station ratshaus, accessible with tram nr. 4 and 15”.

I enjoyed it very much, but it was bad for my credit card bill.

Franz Bader Bookstore
1911 I St. NW , Washington, DC

Metro: Farragut West or Farragut North

Phone 202/337-5440

ChrisL

Oh, I used to work near the Franz Bader bookstore. An excellent shop!

Was there one in Berlin around the junction of Friedrichstraße and Oranienburger Straße?

I’m just going to point out that the staff at Franz Bader books saved my butt last month when I needed books about post-1970 design history. I’m lucky to live in walking distance.

I’d like to nominate the entire Virgin Megastore chain. Virgin carries a great selection of art and design books and the store on the Champs-Élysées in Paris is an art/design lover’s dream.

Another vote from me for Franz Bader — they’re terrific. I also worked not far from there in a previous lifetime, and crossed their threshold far too many times.

There used to be seriously high-end design bookstore in NYC in Midtown, near the Museum of Broadcasting. Can’t remember the name or address though (it was 20+ years ago)! (And it’s not Rizzoli, either.)

Any thoughts, Patty?

Pro qm, Alte Schönhauser Straße 48, Berlin, www.pro-qm.de
They have a good mixture of graphic design, typography, architecture but also music, pop culture and social theories. Great magazine section too with many hard-to-gets!

An excellent small design bookstore in Helsinki:

Keski-Töölön Paperikauppa Oy
Ruusulankatu 18, 00250 HELSINKI
Tel 09-490 086. Fax 09-490 080.

I should pay a visit sometime, since it’s been a while since I last popped in.

in Toronto:
http://www.swipe.com/

in Montréal:
http://www.cca.qc.ca/bookstore/

I must confess to a bias here: I set up and ran the CCA Bookstore for a very, very long time, though left nearly two years ago. While it is an architecture bookstore within an architecture museum, there is a good range of books on design and typography.

And it remains a bookshop, not a “museum shop” with a few books on the side.
A dying breed.

“And it remains a bookshop, not a “museum shop” with a few books on the side.
A dying breed.”

Real bookshops of any kind are a dying breed. The Borders/Barnes&Nible chain has made it hard for them to compete. The trouble is, the big chains don’t carry much beyond the standard fare “Best Seller” stuff.

ChrisL

Oak Knoll is located in New Castle, Delaware. It has an extensive web site, and says it has the world’s largest inventory of books about books.

Linda is (I think) referring to the Urban Center on Madison Ave at about 51st street. Its focus is on architecture but they do have a lot of design books.

http://www.urbancenterbooks.org/

For a store specializing in design, they have one ugly web site!!! And a logo that completely rips off the Met.

MoMA has a good bookstore as well. But sadly, a lot of the funky independents, like Untitled in SoHo are gone now.

Thanks again guys… I’m currently compiling them in the Typowiki under bookstores.

The code isn’t the most forgiving to leading. I apologise for hurting those fine-tuned eyes. Perhaps, eventually, it could take the same standard HTML form of the Typophile Books section, or become part of it.

Antikvariat Morris. A second-hand bookshop specializing in hard-to-find titles about Typography & Graphic Design, Calligraphy, Bibliography, Book Binding, Papermaking, Ex Libris, History of the Book & Printing, Illustration & Illustrators etc... Situated outside Stockholm, but was also present in Lisboa at the ATypI conference.

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Patty, for New York City I would add St. Mark’s Bookshop, at 31 Third Avenue in the East Village, and Shakespeare and Co. Booksellers. Shakespeare and Co. have at least two locations that usually stock plenty of design and typography books: one at 716 Broadway and the other at 137 East 23rd Street, near SVA. And let’s not forget Strand Bookstore: they always have bargains on new or recent design and typography titles, and tons of used books, too..

Thanks, Patty, that was the one I was thinking of: I wore out two credit cards shopping there when I was a student at Parsons. :-)

I hear ya. I used to work across the street.

William Stout Architectural Books
804 Montgomery St.
San Francisco, CA 94133
www.stoutbooks.com
415.391.6757
Upstairs is architectural, downstairs is design, tons of graphic design and typography books.

Here in the hinterlands:

http://www.mnbookarts.org/theshop/theshop.html

The Shop at Minnesota Center for Book Arts
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
PHONE: 612-215-2520
EMAIL: mcba@mnbookarts.org

http://www.lauriebooks.com/index.php

James and Mary Laurie Books
921 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN, 55402
Telephone: 612-338-1114
info@lauriebooks.com

I liked Powell’s in Chicago (I visited the one near the campus a year ago when I stayed in C for a week) — a nice selection of secondhand books on typography.
And there was a bookstore specializing in architecture and design in downtown Chicago that had a few cases full of graphic design and type. Can’t remember their name… (old age, I guess).

Hennessey & Ingalls in Santa Monica, CA is quite good.

hhp

Hrant, is that the bookstore that is in the shopping plaza? I know that is vague. :^/ A friend took me to this amazing shopping area in So Cal and the bookstore we went to kept us occupied for 4 hours. (Needless to say we didn’t have time to shop for shoes.)

Hey, this whole place is a shopping plaza! ;-)
Maybe you mean the Third Street Promenade, which is a nice
pedestrian-only shopping/dining street, in which case, yes.
http://www.hennesseyingalls.com/hennessey/text_2.asp?s_id=0&

hhp

Yep that’s it. Thanks!

Gee, Tif, why would you want shoes when you can get design books? ;-)

Eheh. Err. I have no idea.

Not exactly typography, but great independent book arts:
Printer Matter, 195 Tenth Ave (near 22nd), NYC: www.printedmatter.org
New Museum, 556 West 22nd, NYC: www.newmuseum.org

This just in... Dot Dot Dot is available at the Dexter Sinister workshop and occasional bookstore in NYC’s Lower East Side: 38 Ludlow Street (basement). I see that they have some other design and typography titles there as well.

Also, do used bookstores count? Both Skyline Books (13 West 18th Street, across the street from Academy Records) and, to a lesser extent, Mercer Street Books and Records (206 Mercer Street) carry art, design and typography books. Skyline even has a section on books about books and book arts...

Perhaps used/antiquarian should be another section in the wiki?

Bologna (Italy)
Fabrica
Via Rizzoli, 8
Tel:051/271165

and the more obvious Feltrinelli in all major Italian cities.

I liked Powell’s in Chicago (I visited the one near the campus a year ago when I stayed in C for a week) — a nice selection of secondhand books on typography.
And there was a bookstore specializing in architecture and design in downtown Chicago that had a few cases full of graphic design and type. Can’t remember their name… (old age, I guess).

There’s a Powell’s at 2850 N. Lincoln Ave, in Chicago that’s usually better than the other stores. It’s remaindered or used, and the best (expensive) stuff is in the room in the back. The one at 828 S. Wabash is worth a visit if you have the time.

I think the other one you’re referring to is Prairie Ave. Bookshop at 418 S. Wabash in the South Loop. It’s mainly an architectural bookstore, but carries the best selection of new graphic design and type books in the city.

George
I felt bad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no Bodoni

My girlfriend gave me a birthday present yesterday of a trip to Stockholm for Valentine’s week…

My attention is naturally drawn toward bookstores over there as I trawl the internet for things to see and do. Any suggestions from Swedish Typophiles would be great…

Ta.

C