Pickwick Book Shop

Thay Tay

Bookstores like this are rare these days. When you visit you should make sure you're not in a rush. You'll never know what you'll find while browsing!

Seth ToAmerica

Small "business" making very little attempt to sell anything to anyone; A&E should film an episode of the hit series "Hoarders" at Pickwick Book Shop. Are you looking for something specific or just browsing? It barely matters: titles aren't organized by author or by genre, nor are they even separated by "new" or used. And yes, the scare quotes are justified. The store attempts to market gently-used-but-clearly-decades-old titles as "new" and worth cover MSRP, even for out-of-print textbooks. I suppose they could hypothetically justify this if they maintained inventory with an antiquarian spirit, but Pickwick seems possessed more by the geist of a storage locker than an archive: complete with unstowed building materials, copious dust, and a fetid stench. Many bookstores have overly pretentious and unjustified names, but Pickwick actually managed to reference the right author if the wrong work. Obviously, they should have named the store Havisham's House of Books: the Miss couldn't separate old from new either.

Adam Esguerra

This place gives me anxiety. I love used bookstores usually, but you have to be able to look through the books in order for it to be an enjoyable experience. You can only really look at the top few books because you can’t back up or bend down without fear of knocking over a huge stack of books. Not that you’d be able to access any lower books without taking down a full stack anyway. Please organize this place a little so we can really see all the wonderful books you have hidden away.

AMS

As a book lover, I made a special trip from NYC to this bookstore after reading the reviews. However, this experience was sadly disappointing. The place is a complete dusty mess—-only a hoarder could love it. Piles and piles of disorganized …