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Specialties
Book Warehouse is a local independent book store in Vancouver. Let our friendly staff help you find your next favourite book.
History
Established in 1980
Book Warehouse is now a part of the Black Bond Books family. Black Bond is a family owned independent book store chain started in 1963.
Update: Since Book Warehouse changed hands a few years ago and is now a part of Black Bond Books, I've noticed that this location's selection of poetry has dropped in quantity. I find it easy to judge a bookstore based on its poetry shelves but, ah, that's me!
The staff, however, are friendly as ever and happy to order books in for me whenever I ask. There seems to be less bargains, and...
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i miss the range of independent bookstores we used to have in the city, and so on occasion whence my wandering feet chance to take me in the vicinity of what is perhaps the last holdout from the big chains, I oblige the urge to allow my mind to touch the corners of nearly every book on the shelves, to allow my imagination to guess at the content within.
At last I choose from their selection-...
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Solid 3.5 stars. Convenient location in fairview, smaller store than Chapters obviously but less hassle.
Do have a few wooden chairs to sit and browse in the back.
Cooking and autobiographies on the right.
Greeting cards available too right in front.
Too bad they don't accept Amex her, lost a sale.