Brattle Book Shop is the best secondhand bookshop that I know of in Boston. the intellectual heart (unsuitable metaphor?) of America's east coast. Its unique outdoor display is most memorable.
A video tour of Brattle and interview with the owner.
As a nostalgic note, I bought these good books, among others, from Brattle on July 2, 2002:
Here appear occasional jottings of my random musings. Profound or jejune, they reveal the contours of my mental universe, with world history, intellectual history, civilizations, philosophy, religion, society, knowledge, and books as some major themes. Since May 2011, this blog has been exclusively focused on Singapore. All my other reflections are now posted in "Notes from Noosphere" (see link under "Miscellany" on the right margin).
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