Category: books

  • Bookstores, Left Bank, Paris – part 1

    Bookstores, Left Bank, Paris – part 1

    As some of you may know, we have been putting up photos of bookstores from around the world. This is another bunch to add to the pile. If you are curious, do click on the side bar and browse the filtered selections. Or jump to Rizzoli in Milano, T-site in Daikanyama, Tokyo, Livraria Cultura in Iguatemi, Sao…

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  • The Eslite Spectrum 誠品生活, Hong Kong

    The Eslite Spectrum 誠品生活, Hong Kong

    We were visiting Hong Kong during the Christmas period. One store that we went to multiple times on this trip is The Eslite Spectrum store in Star House 星光行, Tsim Sha Tsui. Its location just happened to be near the places that we were visiting and it is just a nice place to have a…

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  • Libelle mit H&B, Buchantiquariat, Basel

    Libelle mit H&B, Buchantiquariat, Basel

    Continuing with our posts on the bookstores we come across …, Libelle mit H&B is a high end, second hand bookstore (antique bookseller) in Basel, Switzerland. Click here to see their site. It has a perfect location – a block from the city’s main thoroughfare –  and situated at just the bottom of the cobbled-stoned street that leads…

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  • Rizzoli Galleria, Milano

    Rizzoli Galleria, Milano

    Continuing our tour of the world’s bookstores, we found a Rizzoli inside the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuelle II in Milano. It is affiliated with the one in New York. The Rizzoli Galleria are on three floors, it is not huge but carries quite a variety of Italian and international books. According to the publicity material, the store…

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  • Moscow House of Books, Московский дом книги

    Moscow House of Books, Московский дом книги

    If you have been following this blog for a while, you would know that I(Chris) like to check out local bookstores when visiting a new city/country.  For example, in Budapest, London, Kuala Lumpur… for more bookstores, click on Books to find them. In Moscow, I stumbled upon this massive bookstore after having dinner in the touristy…

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  • T-Site, Daikanyama 代官山, Tokyo

    T-Site, Daikanyama 代官山, Tokyo

    We spent almost half a day in Daikanyama 代官山, most of the time in the Tsutaya bookstore蔦屋書店. For Chris who has been photographing bookstores (for example, Livraria Cultura in Sao Paulo, Alexandra in Budapest etc.), this Tsutaya branch is a temple for worshipping. In a perfect world, all bookshops near me would be like this. Opened in…

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