Friday, September 29, 2006

St. Martin-in-the-Fields Book Antiquariat

A quiet place for Illustration Friday. I love used book shops. I used to work at the Wooden Spoon in Ann Arbor Michigan. There's a nifty one in the German Village in Columbus, OH, that is a maze of tiny rooms, 32 or 34, up various flights of steps and round corners. I love it. I also like the name "antiquariat" which I stole from a shop in Haifa. There's an area that's filled with book shops, from the old dusty used-book shops, to elegant expensive used-book places, to fluorescent-lit new-book shops with stacks of x-rated magazines on the sidewalk in front. I like any shop that offers a sofa and a cat in a quiet corner.