book/shop oakland

Read instead... screen print from an original watercolor painting by BOOK/SHOP founder Erik Heywood

BOOK/SHOP is an intimate, well-curated book store/experience in Alley 49 next to Temescal Alley. As well as first editions and other fine volumes, they carry bookish prints, lovely book bags, and other book-related paraphernalia.

Book/Shop book bag, $15

"The Habit of Reading" print, $18

At the end of March they started featuring five new arrivals on their site a week which are only available for online purchase. A few recent gems:

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster and In Watermelon Sugar. First Edition of this printing. $250

Claude Cahun, Photographe. First Edition. $200

Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born. First Edition. $35.

BOOK/SHOP blog. And Instagram.

[all photos: book/shop]