Find More Than 80,000 Books At Glover’s Bookery, The Largest Discount Book Shop In Kentucky
There’s nowhere on earth quite as satisfying as a used bookstore, is there? You get to stand among the stacks and breathe in the combination of human hands on dusty pages that gives us that great book smell. You can thumb through pages and admire how time has made them soft, and imagine how the stranger who read the title before you felt as the plot came to a blaring crescendo, and even take that fragrance, sense of adventure, and physical object home with you. You know what’s better than a used bookstore? An enormous used bookstore. Take a look at this one:
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Glover’s Bookery isn’t just any old bookstore. They’re not strictly discount either, actually. They carry rare and antiquarian books as well. In any case, what you’ll find when you enter the shop is basically a book lover’s paradise.
The shopkeepers are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.
They’ve been in business buying and selling titles since 1978. With a stock of over 80,000 mostly hardback books, they’ve got all kinds of titles available. This supply of chilling tales, for example:
Glover’s Bookery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. You can follow along on Facebook for more information about their treasure trove of titles. You can also check out their website.
Were you surprised at which store we selected for this article? You’re welcome to tell us about your favorite enormous bookshop in Kentucky by visiting our nomination page. Have you prowled the stacks of Glover’s Bookery? If so, we’d love to hear about your experiences in the comments.
J.B. Weisenfels has lived in rural Arkansas for three decades. She is a writer, a mom, and a graduate student. She is also an avid collector of tacky fish whatnots, slightly chipped teapots, and other old things. In her spare time she enjoys driving to the nearest creek to sit a while. If you were to visit her, she'd try to feed you cornbread.
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