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By: Jean Louise Finch
Date: 16th Aug 06
Product: Books
Anatomy: Brain
What:
City Basement Books
Where:
28 Elizabeth St, Melbourne
When:
Mon-Fri 10-6, Sat 10-2
Contact:
9654 1173
There’s something appealing about walking into a space that looks like a mad professor’s living room and smells like your grandpa’s jacket. Cluttered to the rafters with hardbacks, novels and magazines, City Basement Books is a gold mine of reading matter great and small and is better than most things kept in basements.
Eerie quiet isles thick with the ghosts of books gone by hold an archive of well-loved fiction, reference titles and specialised genres, ranging from beautiful photography books to practical travel guides from 1965.
Don’t let the dust put you off, more often than not you will find what you’re after, and unlike other second hand stores it will still have the cover attached.