QUALITY USED, OUT OF PRINT, AND UNUSUAL BOOKS
3786 Howard Ave. | Kensington, MD 20895 | Directions | (301) 949-9416 | kensington.books@verizon.net
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Store Hours
Tue-Sat: 10-6pm,
Sunday: 12-5pm
Closed Monday
Later or earlier by chance or by appointment.
Open later during store events.
We Support Local Authors!
See our local author selection
Copies available in store now!
Check out what we
find inside of books!
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We are located one and one-half blocks east of Connecticut Ave on Kensington's Antique Row. Look for the red and blue building.
Driving Directions from Yahoo
BUS: Several bus lines have stops near our store:
4, 5, 6, 7, 33, and the 34.
METRO AND BUS: Wheaton metro: buslines 34, 6. Silver Spring metro: 4, 5. Grosvenor: 6. Medical Center: 33, 34. Twinbrook: 5. White Flint: 5. Bethesda: 34. Glenmont: 33
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Browse our tables of
$1 to $2 books!
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We carry a wide selection of:
Georgetown Book Shop posters
A Rare View Books vintage ads, posters, and prints
Old postcards and photographs, ephemera
New vintage-style greeting cards
And local scenes by historic preservation artist Joan Zwack
(Limited ed. prints & packaged cards)
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Residing within our shop, on the second floor, is the Catalan library and reading room of the Fundacio Pauli Bellet, a collection of books in Catalan of interest to Catalan speakers and students. Catalan language classes offered...inquire for more information.
Visit www.catalansdc.com for more information on events, activities, language classes, and news of the Catalan community of the DC area, and to subscribe to their email list.
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Come to the shop to see, play and buy Theremins made by Art Harrison !
Art playing his Theremin in front of the shop.
Visit Art's website.
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RICHARD MARTIN
A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE
LAID ON MY HEART,
November 7, 2006
A gentle person of sensitive spirit
You gave yourself to our town
Enriching the culture of learning, growing,
From the Tea Room to the book store
Helping in any way you could.
Volunteering at the Day of the Book;
Monitoring crowds and activities on Labor Day
Always taking time to listen
From your heart and soul.
Laughing and telling jokes,
Chipping away stone on stone
Creating simple art from rock.
Living every moment to its fullest
Loving life as you found it.
Genuine, honest and thoughtful of creation
The treasure of nature spoke
Inspired, you smiled and the world was brighter.
We were all blessed by your spirit.
by Richard H. Rice
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HILARY THAM
A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE
Sonnet written by Mel Belin on the occasion of the December 7th poetry reading in memory of Hilary Tham...
For Hilary Tham
--who was always there for us.
No seance for us, only this reading!
Enough come on a night in December -
your friends - six months after, still needing . . .
Celebrate your last book's launch, to remember.
Maybe what's done can't be un-. Still, it's as if
an energy to and from who's at the mic,
with feelings unexpected as ever riff
or revenant sensed: they play through us, take
off . . . From outside, a train shakes the bookstore
window, accelerates along the icy track
to crush with its accelerating roar
our elegiac. Yet still we're back,
sifting as it fades, for whatever ore
is in the words, and you there too, to fill our lack!
by Mel Belin
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