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JAMES JOYCE USED TO FREQUENT THE LEGENDARY SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY LEFT BANK BOOKSTORE DURING HIS PARIS YEARS. IT IS STILL A DESTINATION IN ITS OWN RIGHT, WITH A FLAVOUR AND SMELL OF ITS OWN, A COMPLETELY UNIQUE PLACE. THERE IS A DEFINITIVE "THE" BOOKSTORE IN EACH CITY AND PROBABLY FOR EACH OF US. THIS IS WRITER PAULS BANKOVSKIS' CHOICE.
n the 1980s, when I lived in Denver and the 1971-founded Tattered Cover bookstore was still housed in its original premises...CITY LIGHTS
The 'flagship' of alternative culture, closely linked with the 1950s Beat Generation and the radicals of the 1960s - originally the first American bookshop...BOOKED UP
The architecture is the traditional functional brown brick 'boxes' of cheap American shopping centres...LONDON REVIEW BOOKSHOP
While the bookshop dates back only to 2003, today it is one of the best of its kind in the Bloomsbury area, so rich in literary connections...LIVRARIA LELLO
Definitely one of the world's most beautiful bookstores, worth a visit even if reading is not an essential part of your life...
Opened in 1993, the Globe Bookstore/Cafe is a real old-timer of the post-socialist space. A favourite hang-out spot among ex-pats...HEDENGRENS
Set next door to one of Stockholm's most elegant shopping centre yet dating back to a much earlier date, the Hedengrens Bookstore...THE ENGLISH BOOKSHOP
I have no idea if there are many tourists who go to Amsterdam looking for bookshops, but, should anyone...OGI
To enter this outlet of the OGI syndicate of booksellers/ "wide-profile establishments", one has to overcome certain difficulties of the orienteering kind: walk...FOYLES
This bookstore, the full name of which is W & G Foyle Ltd, was founded in 1903 by brothers William and Gilbert Foyle...
The founder and - begging your pardon - soul of the bookstore Marga Schoeller has become a legend of Berlin, of Berlin bookshops and bookshops in general. Unless...THE STRAND BOOKSTORE
This Greenwich Village family-owned bookstore, founded on 16 August 1949, is exactly what its name suggests...
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