Quality secondhand books since 1975
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Services
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We sell a wide variety of first-edition, antiquarian, and other collectible books. Contact us for requests.
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We are always looking for quality secondhand books. Here’s a list of authors we are currently buying.
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We rent books to film production companies. Contact us and we will help you decorate your set.
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Adrian King-Edwards, the owner of The Word, is frequently employed to evaluate writers’ archives for the McGill and Concordia University libraries. Contact us for an estimate.
Our Story
The Word Bookstore was founded by Adrian King-Edwards and Lucille Friesen in 1975. They had spent the previous summer hawking paperbacks out of their VW van in Northern British Columbia. Upon returning to Montreal, Lucille taped a photo of George Bernard Shaw to the front window of their apartment on Milton Street and the couple turned their living room into an underground bookstore. - Continue reading