Out-Of-Print Bookstore

A literal treasure trove offers hard-to-find gems

by Contributor at Citysearch

In Short
At first this spare, mild-mannered shop plucks at your conscience. Can shopping here deliver anything that Alibis or other online venues can't? The answer: positively. No Internet transaction offers the sensory treat of an hour at Out-of-Print. Here cool air drifts with scents of ancient book paste. Your hands itch for a ``little big book'' for kids, once clutched by Depression-era palms. And in the Texas Room--a plain square enclosure--the titles reel you back through decades of Texan identity.