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Elliott Bay Book Company
101 South Main Street
Seattle, Washington 98104
206-624-6600
800-962-5311
http://www.elliottbaybook.com/
STORE HOURS
Monday-Saturday -- 9:30 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Sunday -- 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
About a month ago, my wife and I did a week-long Alaskan cruise which began and ended in Seattle. We tacked an extra day on to the end so we could leisurely check out as many bookstores as we possibly could. Well, we got to three...
The Consigilere at our hotel was a bit surprised by our request. There was a used-book store in the general vicinity of where he lived, but it was on the far side of town. He seemed to recall that Elliot Bay was still around, but confessed that he hadn't been there in years. He did, however recall that it was in the vicinity of Pioneer Park, and if you go downhill to First Street, you can take the trolly for free... He even marked it on a tourist map for us, and was only off by 2 blocks.
Long story short: We got off the trolly 1 block short of our destination, which turned out to be a VERY fortunate thing, because we found 2 other bookstores (see other postings). And the weather was cool and dry and sunny -- very unusual for Seattle.
Elliot Bay books is without a doubt the LARGEST bookstore I've ever been in. It's rustic, like Half-Price Books, like an Adirondack lodge, like it's been there since before there were sawmills and the wood was hewn by hand. LOTS of people, over 150,000 titles (they claim -- I didn't audit them), room after room after room of books. We unabashedly took pictures. We picked out enough books, I asked the folks at the information desk/gazebo if I could start a stack with them. No problem. Then it was a matter of us finding books and adding them to the stack, and the second stack...
I got 3 books from the rare book section -- excellent place, fairly reasonably priced, too. I mentioned that I had heard about them from LibraryThing. About 5 minutes later, one of the gazebo-ites was trying to find LT on the computer, so I helped her. Time passes, and I'm a bit weary, so I sat down in a chair near the info desk. A woman asked them about finding a book about how to read a book. I spoke up. "'How to Read a Book' -- it's right behind me!" It was a paperback copy, but I'm very sure it was what she needed. We discussed the book, I told her about LibraryThing, I hope she joined.
There's a cafe in the basement of the building. Leave books that you want to purchase upstairs somewhere; there's plenty to read downstairs. The food is good, perhaps a little pricey, and the coffee is excellent. There's a room off to the side downstairs. It was closed to the public, but they let me peek in there anyway. There's a fairly low ceiling, and the walls are lined with filled bookshelves. It looked so familiar, but I couldn't place it. I saw it again just the other night on CSPAN-2 -- they do some segments of Book-TV there! I'm sure it's used for other things, too -- book signings, etc.
I'm not going to confess how much we spent at Elliot Bay. It was a lot, but overall, I think it was a reasonable price. There were just so many books we bought!!! We spent 6 hours at Elliot Bay. I'm not sure I saw every book in there, but my wish-list is probably over 100 titles now.
It was difficult carrying those bags of books down the street to the other 2 bookstores we saw earlier, but one of the places, because we did almost as much financial damage there as we did at Elliot Bay, offered to ship ALL of our books to us. That didn't include the dozen we bought in Alaska, though.
The Consigilere, by the way, ended up witha couple of brochures we found that list just about EVERY bookstore in Seattle.
101 South Main Street
Seattle, Washington 98104
206-624-6600
800-962-5311
http://www.elliottbaybook.com/
STORE HOURS
Monday-Saturday -- 9:30 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Sunday -- 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
About a month ago, my wife and I did a week-long Alaskan cruise which began and ended in Seattle. We tacked an extra day on to the end so we could leisurely check out as many bookstores as we possibly could. Well, we got to three...
The Consigilere at our hotel was a bit surprised by our request. There was a used-book store in the general vicinity of where he lived, but it was on the far side of town. He seemed to recall that Elliot Bay was still around, but confessed that he hadn't been there in years. He did, however recall that it was in the vicinity of Pioneer Park, and if you go downhill to First Street, you can take the trolly for free... He even marked it on a tourist map for us, and was only off by 2 blocks.
Long story short: We got off the trolly 1 block short of our destination, which turned out to be a VERY fortunate thing, because we found 2 other bookstores (see other postings). And the weather was cool and dry and sunny -- very unusual for Seattle.
Elliot Bay books is without a doubt the LARGEST bookstore I've ever been in. It's rustic, like Half-Price Books, like an Adirondack lodge, like it's been there since before there were sawmills and the wood was hewn by hand. LOTS of people, over 150,000 titles (they claim -- I didn't audit them), room after room after room of books. We unabashedly took pictures. We picked out enough books, I asked the folks at the information desk/gazebo if I could start a stack with them. No problem. Then it was a matter of us finding books and adding them to the stack, and the second stack...
I got 3 books from the rare book section -- excellent place, fairly reasonably priced, too. I mentioned that I had heard about them from LibraryThing. About 5 minutes later, one of the gazebo-ites was trying to find LT on the computer, so I helped her. Time passes, and I'm a bit weary, so I sat down in a chair near the info desk. A woman asked them about finding a book about how to read a book. I spoke up. "'How to Read a Book' -- it's right behind me!" It was a paperback copy, but I'm very sure it was what she needed. We discussed the book, I told her about LibraryThing, I hope she joined.
There's a cafe in the basement of the building. Leave books that you want to purchase upstairs somewhere; there's plenty to read downstairs. The food is good, perhaps a little pricey, and the coffee is excellent. There's a room off to the side downstairs. It was closed to the public, but they let me peek in there anyway. There's a fairly low ceiling, and the walls are lined with filled bookshelves. It looked so familiar, but I couldn't place it. I saw it again just the other night on CSPAN-2 -- they do some segments of Book-TV there! I'm sure it's used for other things, too -- book signings, etc.
I'm not going to confess how much we spent at Elliot Bay. It was a lot, but overall, I think it was a reasonable price. There were just so many books we bought!!! We spent 6 hours at Elliot Bay. I'm not sure I saw every book in there, but my wish-list is probably over 100 titles now.
It was difficult carrying those bags of books down the street to the other 2 bookstores we saw earlier, but one of the places, because we did almost as much financial damage there as we did at Elliot Bay, offered to ship ALL of our books to us. That didn't include the dozen we bought in Alaska, though.
The Consigilere, by the way, ended up witha couple of brochures we found that list just about EVERY bookstore in Seattle.
2aluvalibri
Thank you for the wonderful - and appetizing - description. Now I have even more reasons to go visit Seattle.
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