For those who believe the best stories come with worn spines...
Visit Shop 59, where book lovers can lose themselves in shelves packed with antique vintage books spanning centuries and subjects. Guests are encouraged to "Peruse the Stacks," as this shop takes the written word seriously. The rare book collection features genuine treasures, including a first edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Aids to Reflection from 1825, a Robert Browning Paracelsus in an Arts and Crafts binding from 1904, an antique Victorian autograph album with ornate gilt tooling, and a pocket-sized Webster's Handy Dictionary that looks like it's been carried in a coat for well over a century.
The shelves are thoughtfully organized by category, with handwritten labels guiding you through History/Science, Fiction, Asia, New Age/Spirituality, Pacific Northwest, The West, Art, and Children's/Young Adult. You'll find leather-bound sets of classic literature, a multi-volume Arabic-English Lexicon, vintage copies of The Call of the Pacific and Westward Vision, an illustrated Our Country's Flag, and heavyweight art books like Herschel Chipp's Picasso's Guernica. A Hammond's World Atlas shares space with a Seattle World's Fair 1962 science exhibit program, and there's a wonderful Beatle Book with those iconic mop-top portraits on the cover.
A spinning rack of mid-century paperbacks adds pulp fiction charm, with titles like Death and the Maiden, Soldiers' Pay, Heart of Darkness, and The Disappearance showing off their vivid, lurid cover art. Vintage children's items include a Jack and Jill coloring book and a Dick Tracy coloring book still in its packaging. Boxes of vintage photographs, ephemera, postcards, and rolled prints and canvases round out the collection for collectors who appreciate paper treasures of all kinds. If you're hunting for antique vintage books with character and history, Shop 59 is a place where the smell of old pages and the thrill of the hunt go hand in hand. For more vintage books and collectibles, browse Shop 213.
New items and collections daily - Worth the trip!
Visit the Northwest’s leading Vintage and Retro Mall: Pacific Antiques Mall
10228 Pacific Ave S Tacoma, Washington 98444
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The 1825 first edition of Coleridge's "Aids to Reflection" in its marbled paper binding anchors the top shelf, joined by a Victorian autograph album with an embossed metal cover, a Webster's Handy Dictionary, a "Manual for China Painters," a signed Sheila Waters botanical cibachrome print, and a "Gammel Strand" Danish watercolor art book. "Idols of Casa Alta" in its bold magazine format anchors the left, while a navy "Education of a Princess" with a gold crown and a Paracelsus volume in an Arts and Crafts embossed leather binding stand beside a signed Sheila Waters botanical cibachrome print featuring a Robert Herrick verse. Rolled vintage Neely-Hall Christmas window prints from 1926 sit in a cardboard box beside a pine bookcase whose shelves hold Asia-themed hardcovers with original dust jackets, a matching set of red and gilt leather-bound classics, and a row of uniform dark blue cloth hardcovers. Two pine bookcases organized by handwritten subject labels hold a rich spread of vintage titles: "Picasso's Guernica," "Westward Vision: The Oregon Trail," "Knight's Modern Seamanship," "Our Country's Flag" in a blue ship-motif binding, and a Torah with green spine, spanning History/Science, Art, PNW, The West, and Children/Young Adult categories. The Beatle Book of Recorded Hits with its black and white photo cover shares the lower shelf with "All in the Racket" in a teal Art Deco binding and "Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas," while the table holds white baskets of loose ephemera, a suede-bound book, and a gold star-embossed red notebook; the wire rack beside it offers "The Book of Weird," a Jack and Jill coloring book, and vintage children's pamphlets. Six matching green and gilt volumes of Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon anchor the top shelf above a row of burgundy leather-bound hardcovers and "The Young Americans" magazine, while a Dick Tracy Coloring Book stands propped in front; on the table, a natural wood crate overflows with loose vintage black and white photographs and printed ephemera. A handwritten "Old and Interesting" label marks the top section of the pine bookcase, which holds Faulkner's "Soldiers' Pay," a Longfellow illustrated poetry collection, and "Science Fiction Stories 1951," while the adjacent wire paperback rack is stacked with pulp fiction gems including "Death and the Maiden," "The Disenchanted," "Dead Bolt," and "Heart of Darkness." Shop 59 is a bibliophile's corner with a Hammond's World Atlas, a Beatles Book, a 1962 Seattle World's Fair poster, leather-bound volumes, vintage children's books, and baskets of ephemera and postcards.
