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Harvard Book Store was established in 1932 by Mark Kramer, father of longtime owner Frank Kramer, and originally sold used textbooks to students. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Family-owned for over seventy-five years, the store was sold in the fall of 2008 to Jeffrey Mayersohn and Linda Seamonson of Wellesley, Massachusetts , and remains an independent business.
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The Book Loft of German Village is an independent bookstore in the German Village neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.Opened in 1977 and described by the Columbus Business First as "iconic" and a "tourist destination", [1] the store has also been called "a national treasure" by The New York Times. [2]
Globe Corner Bookstore, 1988-2011 Cambridge, Massachusetts site. The Globe Corner Bookstore was one of the largest travel book and map retailers in North America. It was located at 90 Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard Square. The store provided a full range of travel and outdoor recreation reference materials for a ...
The Picnic's current owner, Tony Davis, began working with Weist in 1983, when Davis was an undergraduate at Harvard University and a part-time store clerk at the Picnic. [6] [10] [11] A comic book veteran, Davis is also a co-founder of the Boston Kids Comics Festival. [12] [13]
The main store is located in the heart of Harvard Square, across the street from the Harvard subway station headhouse. The Coop was founded as the Harvard Cooperative in 1882 to supply books, school supplies, and wood and coal for winter heating. [1] MIT, following its move from Boston to Cambridge in 1916, invited the Coop to open a branch of ...
The Grolier Book Shop was founded in September 1927 by Adrian Gambet and Gordon Cairnie. The subsequent owner, Louisa Solano purchased and took over its operation in 1974 after Cairnie's death. The poet-bookseller Arthur Freeman negotiated the sale. In 1990, the Grolier Book Shop became the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Inc. for tax reasons.
He promoted the concept with a how-to book and a web site, and groups around the U.S. soon began offering similar excursions, usually via a chartered bus, and often incorporating book signings, author home tours, and historical sites. [1] The most famous bookstore tourism destination is Hay-on-Wye in Wales. In 2005-06, two regional booksellers ...