Bryn Mawr Book Store

I live around the corner and I've been coming regularly for the last 18 months. Great store with a wide selection

Awesome selection, great prices, and a great place to donate and support a great cause! Hit the ATM first, because you'll probably come out with a great haul.

Perfect, well organized, interesting little
bookstore.

Delightful collection of used books.

Cash only.

Very reasonable prices.

I was impressed by the children’s selection. Wonderful assortment of art books, history, fiction…everything you need!
Worth a visit.

A gem of a bookshop filled with books from many genres. They have many sets of bound books, a well stocked literary criticism section, lovely art books and an interesting history selection. There is also a nice children's section full of nostalgic books! Helpful staff, neat aisles and very reasonably priced books. There is street parking and quite a few very good eateries and specialty shops on Huron Ave.

This is a beautiful used book store — a wonderful place to browse, with a diverse and sophisticated selection, especially rewarding for a scholarly audience. But I just can’t stand the cash-only constraint. I’m a bibliophile, own several thousand volumes purchased from locally (Boston and Cambridge) owned stores, and would buy something here every time I shop at Formaggio’s Kitchen across the street, but I never, ever have cash on me, and there’s no Bank of America ATM in walking distance. In my case, at least, the store thus loses at least a few hundred dollars in sales each year, and I can’t imagine I’m alone. Given that credit card processing fees are around 2% per transaction, or about 30 cents for a $15 book, I can’t see how this makes a whole lot of sense. And indeed, this is the only locally owned used book store in the area that is cash-only, to my knowledge (Raven Used Books in Cambridge isn’t, Commonwealth Books in Boston isn’t, Deep Thoughts in Jamaica Plain isn’t). In any case, if you do happen to have cash or just want to browse and not buy, do make sure to stop by.

Not a corporate chain bookstore; quite the opposite. The Bryn Mawr Bookstore is one of the charming and undiscovered "old Cambridge" locations favored by the locals. The store is run by alumnae for the benefit of Bryn Mawr College. (Bryn Mawr College is one of the Seven Sisters, a group of colleges in New England.) This is the place to go if you are looking for a quiet place to reflectively peruse books. Stepping off the bus on to Huron Avenue is like walking out of a time machine into a more peaceful period in American history.