Best Used Bookstore in Boston · Boston, MA
The Brattle Book Shop, founded in 1825, is one of America's oldest and largest antiquarian bookstores. Three floors of used and rare books rise above downtown Boston's West Street, and on fair-weather days the shop spills into an adjacent lot lined with dollar and bargain carts under a mural of literary giants.
Run by the Gloss family for generations, the Brattle is a Boston institution for collectors and browsers alike — a place where a first edition and a two-dollar paperback share the same block, and the hunt is half the point.
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Founded in 1825, the Brattle is one of the oldest antiquarian bookshops in America, famous for its open-air sale lot.
Yes — Brattle Book Shop is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Used Bookstore in Boston, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best used bookstore in Boston for 2025 for keeping one of America's oldest antiquarian bookshops alive, carts in the alley and all.
Brattle Book Shop is in Boston, MA.
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