If I'm ever there again, Stephen...
Lovely concept/
Doug
On 8-Jul-08, at 2:13 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Books & Bookshelves
> 99 Sanchez Street
> (between 14th St & Duboce Ave)
> San Francisco, CA 94114 (415) 621-3761
>
> The other day I found myself dropping into see David Highsmith, poet
> and entrepreneur of bookshelves in a store that includes lots of
> fresh raw wood constructions. David smartly tapped into the San
> Francisco/Castro neighborhood serial appartment dweller need for new
> shelves,
> Sweetly, however, he's created a wonderful bookstore for poetry
> books - not just poetry books, but volumes of 'old' and new 'avant'
> presses (whatever that means for whatever era.) He also shops ebay
> and finds out of print volumes that he resells without upping the
> price. I stumbled into an English pirate edition of Spicer's After
> Lorca - a genuine piece of simulacra of Duncan's original
> typesetting for $20 - if you are interested. Just a lot of stuff -
> beautifully displayed & presented on fresh bookshelves. (No longer
> do interesting books remain a critique on Ron Silliman's blook -
> 'the book made flesh'. The whole place has an attractive, no-
> pressure retail feel. You can enjoy a book while the occaisonal
> clientele is talking to David about wood, sizes, and so forth.
>
> In addition, he has a regular reading series, and omens of a new
> chapbook series. Not to take anything away from City Lights and
> Green Apple and Bird & Beckett's substantial poetry book sections,
> as Independent stores become more and more fragile, Books &
> Bookshelves is a treat.
>
> I suspect David is on the top wave edge of the future. An
> Independent bookstore that wants to survive will offer a substantial
> line of bookshelves! Or, as a friend who has a relatively
> successful and good gallery told me, "It's the framers who make the
> real money in this business, not the gallery."
>
> So if you live or are in the City for a visit...
>
> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
>
> Books & Bookshelves
> 99 Sanchez Street
> (between 14th St & Duboce Ave)
> San Francisco, CA 94114 (415) 621-3761
>
Douglas Barbour
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