For those who believe the best stories come with worn spines...

Visit Shop 59, where book lovers can lose themselves in shelves packed with antiquarian and vintage volumes 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. Shop 59 is a place where the smell of old pages and the thrill of the hunt go hand in hand.

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

(253) 539-0117

Hours: Open Daily 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM - 7 days a week

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