Bryn Mawr Book Store

Specialties

We are a non-​profit bookstore, raising money for the scholarship fund at Bryn Mawr College in PA. Founded 38 years ago. Stock donated. Monthly specials at 50% off. Good turnover. General stock: used, rare, and out-​of-​print with 30,000 books in all fields: children’s parenting Holidays cookbooks travel novels Graphic novels mysteries lit crit poetry architecture art music drama dance antiques design film studies photography crafts history Mid East Africa India Japan China World & American History Civil War Military maritime adventure politics Americana psychology sociology Urban-​Native American-Black-Women’s Studies Business Law Philosophy New Age West-​East Religion Judaica Islam humor education French German Italian Greek Latin+more nature gardening science math GLBT sci fi fantasy medicine self-​help aging sports signed & collectible CDs, LPs, audio+video tapes, and DVDs. Good choice of recent titles. 3,000 books at ABE​books​.com link at www​.bryn​mawr​book​store​.com. Gift Certificates.

History

Established in 1971.

Members of the local Bryn Mawr Alumni Club for several years prior to 1971 organized annual book sales at a local church and at Memorial Hall, Harvard University. In 1971 they incorporated as the Bryn Mawr Book Sale and purchased the building where the store has continuously operated since September 29, 1971. Originally, the women at the store made the selection from New England applicants for scholarships to the College. Eventually, applicant selection was assumed by the College and scholarship aid was broadened to include funding of scholarly projects.

Meet the Manager

Larry M.

Manager

The store manager has been at the task for more than nine years, having been a store patron from the store’s inception. He spent teen years in a small Colorado town with a view of the14,000+ ft. «Collegiate Peaks» (Princeton, Yale, and Harvard) on the Continental Divide and can recall the first book he ever bought in those days – a Philosophy book edited by John Herman Randall – during a break from rehearsals at Western State College with a High School Honor Band directed by Arthur Fiedler. These encounters with Ivy League mountains and Fiedler, and unaccountably being the only person in those parts who cheered for the Boston Red Sox, led him to pray he would visit the Hub of the Universe one day. This he did: he even holed up, worked at Pangloss Bookshop (Remember it?), got a Ph.D., taught philosophy, married an NP/Ph.D., became a dad and grandpa, always introducing the offspring, even when little critters, to the joy of real books at the Bryn Mawr Bookstore. Yours are welcome too.