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34 Trinity Place, San Francisco, CA, 94104
at Sutter St
Financial District
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540 ftMontgomery Street
840 ftBig Bus Tours Stop 17, China Town
0.2 miSansome St & California St
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Specialties
OLD BOOKS, Prints, Ephemera, Art & Artifacts in the smallest bookshop & art gallery in the city, if not the country. Even so, there is a broad array of ever changing titles and subjects as new material comes in. Usual suspects include: Western Americana, particularly the literature and history of San Francisco & California. Also: Art; Photography; much Fiction of the not too recent past; quite a bit of History; Religion; Food & Wine, and much more at fetching prices from $ 2.00 to $ 200.
New Arrivals: Vintage Vinyl Records: Jazz, Broadway Musicals, and more in pristine condition.
History
Established in 1986.
G. F. Wilkinson Books has offered books for sale since 1986 along with ephemera, art, manuscripts, prints and maps. But don’t be surprised to find some seemingly wild detours into other items & objects as we encounter them. Having operated several larger bookstores, the proprietor has finally made good on a longstanding threat to operate the smallest possible open shop — a bookstall (je suis un bouquiniste!) at 34 Trinity Place between Bush & Sutter, just up from Montgomery Street. Come by Monday thru Thursday 11AM to 4PM weather permitting. Feel free to call first, as I am very occasionally away booking, or appraising collections. Finally, much of the online inventory is not at the bookstall but items can be brought there for viewing on request.
Meet the Business Owner
G. F.
Business Owner
George F.(Rick) Wilkinson has been proffering old books to the public since he started as a clerk in 1978 and refuses to stop because said public continues to be delighted, and surprised at the endless possibilities of the dear old codex format. To paraphrase John Cowper Powys: Every good bookseller is a multiple personality, containing all of the extremes of human feeling, they are ascetic hermits, they are erotic immoralists, they are Papists and Quakers, they are communists, they are anarchists, they are savage iconoclasts, they are passionate worshipers of idols. And to paraphrase Grace Slick, anything that anybody says that a bookseller does or did is probably true.
