(I am not the owner so please do not contact me to offer your service.)
Looking for a used bookstore in Seattle? Try the BLMF Literary Saloon in the Pike Place Market!
Address:
1501 Pike Place
Suite 324
Seattle WA 98101
Phone:
206–621-7894
Hours:
Monday-Sunday 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
“Looking for poems written by cats? A Star Wars travel guide? Maybe a book on how to survive a sharknado? You can find those and more at BLMF Literary Saloon. Books fill the windows, line the shelves, pile around the floor and frame the checkout counter. All book recommendations are individually tailored, so if you’re looking for something to pick up but don’t know what to read, ask and they’ll find the perfect book for you!” (PPMB)
What folks are saying
“My favorite bookstore.”
“My wife’s favorite bookstore.”
“Visit once and it’ll be your favorite bookstore, too.”
“What’s the name of the guy who owns it again?”
Mystically liberal Virgo enjoys long walks alone in the city at night in the rain with an umbrella and a flask of 10-year-old Laphroaig who strives to live by the maxim, “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.
I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a college dropout (twice!). Occupationally, I have been a bartender, jewelry engraver, bouncer, landscape artist, and FEMA crew chief following the Great Flood of ’72 (and that was a job that I should never, ever have left).
I am also the final author of the original O’Sullivan Woodside price guides for record collectors and the original author of the Goldmine price guides for record collectors. As such, I was often referred to as the Price Guide Guru, and—as everyone should know—it behooves one to heed the words of a guru. (Unless, of course, you’re the Beatles.)
Now that is what a bookstore is supposed to look like! I’ve always enjoyed the way it feels to roam the aisles of a used bookstore. Not looking for anything in particular, letting the book (okay lets face it books) find you rather than you finding them.
It’s a feeling that has been lost in the digital world of kindles, tablets and instant gratification (I confess I do use, and enjoy, a kindle).
There is also no feeling quite like turning actual pages and feeling the weight of a book butterflied open in your hands.
B
Yup, every town should have one!
Any format that gets people reading is a good format.
That said, a book with openable pages is still the BEST format for reading ...
N
Hi Neal,
What does BLMF stand for, if I might ask?
Thanks!
CHERYL
Thanks for the comment!
As for your question, please go to the BLMF Literary Saloon’s Facebook page and ask the owner. Tell him, “Neal sent me.”
https://www.facebook.com/pages/B‑L-M-F-Literary-Saloon/120481324633069
Keep on keepin’ on!
NEAL
Do you buy used books?
MARY
I do not know what the buying protocol is for BLMF after a year of pandemia. Give them a call and ask. Here is BLMF’s phone number: 206–621-7894
NEAL