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Bookshop field note

Weller Book Works

Go if you are a serious reader, a browser who wants to wander out of your usual genre, or anyone hunting for something rare, and give yourself an afternoon; it was quiet on the Sunday we went, and there is room for a crowd.

An independent bookshop in Trolley Square in Salt Lake City, selling new, used and rare books floor to ceiling, with deep history, art and mythology sections and a one-dollar section.

What it is
Independent bookstore
Street plan around Weller Book Works
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The quick read

Your kind of place?

Go if

you are a serious reader, a browser who wants to wander out of your usual genre, or anyone hunting for something rare, and give yourself an afternoon; it was quiet on the Sunday we went, and there is room for a crowd.

Go elsewhere if

you want a cafe with your books, a comfortable seat you can count on, or step-free access to every floor from inside the shop.

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02 / Photographs

Inside the bookshop

A wide, high-ceilinged warehouse bookshop with exposed wooden trusses, silver ductwork and hanging pendant lights, a curved front counter at left, a railed mezzanine lined with shelves, old-fashioned street lamps and long rows of wooden bookcases stretching back.
Inside
Two handwritten recommendation cards on a pine shelf of books about the American West. 'Catherine Recommends' sits under Fire Season by Philip Connors and 'Frank Recommends' under Saving Yellowstone, beside The Emerald Mile and Cadillac Desert.
Staff picks
Four upholstered armchairs with oak frames arranged in a circle on a concrete floor around a small side table shaped like a stack of old books, with bookcases, the front counter and face-out displays behind.
Somewhere to sit
A long aisle of towering dark wooden bookshelves with a wooden rolling library ladder in the foreground and two more receding along the wall, under high windows, industrial pendant lights and exposed ductwork.
What makes it itself
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