Alison Flood, Guardian, 14 June 2010 ¶ good range of comments, several critical of sentimental attachments to ye olde bookstore… one brings hardware stores into the picture. ¶ I like Harvard Book Store for its espresso printer, which oddly enough brings bookstores back into "publishing" that might have been done by "stationers" a couple of centuries back. hence the "genre" tag.

Sara and John had met in 1876 at a lecture he gave in Santa Barbara, California, where she owned a lending library and stationery store. ¶ Marion [Vermazen]'s Blog: Mountain View Cemetery, April 17, 2008

In 1908 the City of Forest Grove established a tax to support a public library, the first in Washington County. Initially housed in a stationery store at 21st Avenue and College Way, the library became a city department in 1974. ¶ Forest Grove City Library, Forest Grove, Oregon

Women Telegraph Operators : Emma Hunter

The Gustine Branch of the Merced County Free Library was opened on Nov. 22, 1910. It was located in the back of the Gustine Stationery Store next to the Park Restaurant…

paperclips, notebooks (sewn or ring-bound), pens and pencils, that sort of thing. tools and the like.

also, "itinerating libraries," "book club," &c. ¶ Chambers's Encyclopaedia vol 3 (1883)

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Boston Globe, October 21, 2009