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Glover’s Bookery - Lexington, Kentucky

Glover’s Bookery - Lexington, Kentucky

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For more than forty years, Glover’s Bookery has been providing Lexington, Kentucky’s book lovers with rare and vintage volumes. With over 80,000 titles spread across two levels, the shop has an expansive and impressive inventory spanning the genres, including specializations in such subject matter as horses, military history, and Kentucky culture. The shop, owned by John Glover, has been buying and selling antiquarian books since 1978. A great deal of the inventory at Glover’s is hardback, and there are plenty…

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Unique Books - Lexington, Kentucky

Unique Books - Lexington, Kentucky

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Located in Lexington, Kentucky’s Woodland Triangle, just around the corner from Black Swan Books for you bookstore crawlers, is Unique Books, which features a large collection of used titles, as well as plenty of regional works. The shop was opened in the early 2000s by Kathy and Tom Rather. As its namesake implies, the origin of Unique Books is itself rather unique. “It all started because I was irritated with my kids,” Kathy told Smiley Pete Publishing in 2012. “They were voracious…

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Wild Fig Books and Coffee - Lexington, Kentucky

Wild Fig Books and Coffee - Lexington, Kentucky

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Lexington, Kentucky’s Wild Fig Books and Coffee is a worker-owned co-op, radical bookstore, coffee shop, and community event space located in the North Limestone area. Originally opened in another location in 2015 by writer Crystal Wilkinson and her partner, Ronald Davis, the shop was (and remains) Kentucky’s only black-owned bookstore. It moved to its current location later that same year, and now operates in a renovated turn-of-the-century house. In its initial phases, much of the shop’s inventory came from the…

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Black Swan Books - Lexington, Kentucky

Black Swan Books - Lexington, Kentucky

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Established in 1984, Black Swan Books has consistently been rated Lexington, Kentucky’s best used and rare bookstore, and quite deservedly so. For bibliophiles seeking rare, vintage, first-edition, signed, or simply high-quality used books, your search will likely lead you right to the historic building that houses this wonderful shop. Throughout its multiple rooms packed with beautiful, tall shelves, Black Swan has amassed a rather expansive inventory, with titles ranging from the classics to poetry to travel to history to horses…

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