Boston Book Company

Enter a narrow entrance at 705 and go to the second floor. Not always open according to the Google map office hour.

In 2016 I purchased from Helen, the proprietor of the Boston Book Company, the manuscript edition of Henry David Thoreau. This is the cloth edition and remarkably, it still had the dust jackets from 1906. Having seen at least one hundred sets of this edition over forty years of Thoreau collecting, this is the finest example I had seen. Helen made me feel welcome. At the end of the deal, I thanked her with a kiss to the cheek. Thanks Helen!

I called seeking information about resources for selling rare books I had inherited and was coldly hung up with out any chance for a conversation.

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