BOOK/SHOP

03/26/2022

Freshly stocked for the weekend. Come see us 11-5 in Oakland.

03/21/2022

10 Books added to our site today. Art, poetry, architecture, social history and more (including an ultrarare 1950s magazine whose cover was designed for the magazine by Matisse). Link in our profile!

03/17/2022

We quickly sold out of sizes Small and XL in our new Book Jackets, but just received their (limited) stock, so move fast to their shop or site to get the very last of these sizes!

03/16/2022

A lovely set of the first 12 issues of Perspectives USA, a remarkable lmid-century American cultural journal with covers by all-time greats like Paul Rand, Alvin Lustig, and Herbert Bayer. The contents list a who’s-who of American writers. Too many major names to list here, but William Faulkner, Robert Motherwell, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Wallace Stevens, Marsden Hartley, Martha Graham, Thomas Merton, Wallace Stegner, John Cheever, EB White, Edmund Wilson, Tennessee Williams, Clement Greenberg, and May Swenson start to give you an idea. Online now.

03/10/2022

Back in Stock: the SSB-2 in Pure Orange. A thin-lined (but ultra-strong) tabletop bookcase made in the USA exclusively for Book/Shop. Bright White & Jet Black also available.

03/03/2022

03/03/2022

Book Jacket, Edition III in light-wash denim with medium brown 8-wale corduroy collar & lined cuffs. Designed with menswear brand , but popular with women, too. Shown here size S on Sylvie, 5’8”, and size M on Brody, 5’10”. Questions about fit? Just DM us!

03/02/2022

Here is Georgia O’Keefe painting a flower growing near a rain gutter on the ground outside her house. If you’re waiting for the perfect circumstances to start your creative work, good news: they already exist.

02/26/2022

If you’re anything like us, there’s usually a healthy pile of reading on the bedside table. We’ve made an easy way to be sure a bookmark is always handy with our Bookmark Notepad, now available in Cream, Pink, or Green. A tear-away stack of over 150 paper bookmarks featuring a gloss white cover. Made in USA & exclusive to Book/Shop.

02/21/2022

16 New Arrivals added to the Books section of our site. Link in our profile.

02/12/2022

Just in: Works from ’s “Vintage Graph Paper” series. Meticulously made grids of colored thread on natural cotton muslin, each work is unique and strung from one continuous strand of thread, each inspired by a different piece of vintage graph paper. We love Patel’s work for its balance of strict rigor and human warmth. These 16 x20 inch pieces are presented in deep unfinished maple frames. Available in our Oakland shop. DM for more details.

02/05/2022

Just In: The Book/Shop Book Jacket, Edition III. Available in Ecru Bookbag Canvas, Light-Wash Denim, and Olive Green. Each with full corduroy collar & corduroy-lined cuffs. Designed by Book/Shop in collaboration with New York-based menswear brand .

Patterned after a vintage workwear coat, our Book Jacket retains several vintage details while stripping away others. And we’ve added a few touches of our own: a locker loop, a generous inside pocket, an outside "slash" pocket for the hand and one large rectangular pocket, gusseted for space and riveted for durability, made especially for carrying books.

100% Cotton. Sizes S-XL. Limited quantities. Made in Japan.

See more at the link in our profile.