Lot 49 Books

OPEN EARLY TOMORROW FOR THE FLEA
~9 am ~

Here’s some new arrivals

Politics! Cool hardcover zone books! Graebers times 2! And some slim volumes to explain it all…

RSVP links in the stories! (2/ 2)

While you were out swimming 🤿we were studying a bunch of cool events with friends and artists from around the 🌍 (1/2)

Sneak peak
We have more books
And more shelves
Plus a lurking project considered *not that daunting*

Open at the store! AND set up at Big Book Fair 1400 N American St (across American St from Ulises HQ)

We have deals 🤑 on almost all the books in the sale, stop by now!

We do not claim that this Gay Talese paperback is inscribed to the recently deceased Dr Ruth, but we did post the picture only to immediately see online that the famous Dr Ruth died.

Here’s a lightning round of highlights from all the stuff we’ve been buying — includes the a reprinting of the first graphic novel :)

Next month! A production flier by

MILK CRATE FLEA IS (rescheduled) SATURDAY 7/13 we’re hosting .phl

THAT NIGHT is here with some of our favorites

THIS SUNDAY we’re at the book fair back at selling rare wares and whatever else fits in a carefully packed crate on top of a table on top of a bicycle rack. (Store will be open regular browsing hours too)

Today - Tuesday — we’re closed sorry!

We have a lot going on this month but 📚NOT📚tomorrow. Expect a story sale later.

Open now until we feel like it today (at least 2 pm) come by!

Limited time to shop books here the next couple days! Be safe or whatever 📚🌞🚃

Tonight!

Purchased at the Reading Terminal Market in the 80s, this 15 volume Oriental Set The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, translated by John Payne, Teheran edition published 1901 has found its way to our shelves.

DM us with questions! Very good set with a first volume that appears more heavily read than the rest.

All this history headed towards hashtags….

Big reading Friday📚
Big Pop-up Saturday with .phl 🥖🥐🥨

Please attend!

📸Now holding📸 a limited-supply of the new, limited-edition issue of . A beautiful compilation of black and white Philadelphia photography🔔

DM or swing by to purchase, dogs welcome 🌞

Check it outtttt👽

See something💣say something! Leave a comment, shoot us a message and we can $ell you the books As Seen Here.

Some re-ups and new arrivals. Processing a large influx of used titles for this coming weekend.

Today is the big day on 🚨East Girard🚨. is here wheeling and dealing with a whole half of a big block’s worth of vendors from here wrapping around .

Flea til 3, we’re open until 5 🌞

Tomorrow! It’s a great time to visit East Girard and Columbia Ave. We’ll have here along with 12 or so other vendors from way down at .

We’ll be here at ten! Fishtown flea starts a little before 🌞

🫨Lately 🫨
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Tomorrow! Saturday do not forget!

🚨JUST ANNOUNCED🚨
We will be hosting June 5th to help celebrate the launch of two new titles from




WITH




Hosted by and DJ

🚨THIS SATURDAY🚨

Charles Theonia
Jasmine Wilson
Will Newman

Reading at Lot 49 Books Memorial Day Weekend
Sponsored by and (that means free beer).

We are BUZZING 🫨

There will be nice samples 🫖 in store tomorrow 🌞 ty

THIS FRIDAY AT 7

Write About Everything with Graham Irvin concludes with a reading featuring new and returning writers workshop participants. These are reliably some of the most fun readings we do at the shop so do not miss it!

“Sell Yourself” by Pippa Garner. Drawings, writings, inventions and a backwards car all in this career spanning, steady source-of-joy of a book. We also have copies of the Better Living Catalog.

Proud to say we have a limited drop from for sale in-store. All profits will benefit Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity. Pick up only 🍉

NOW SERVING: 🥲🚨

Low key highly memorable frogs

50 Watts Books is a Philadelphia legend of import and export in books to melt 🫠 down and rebuild your brain🧠 all nice.

Brief tour of wares 👈 , journals, solid influx of NYRB, books both new and restock.

Here until 6🌞

Lately
of late
currently🌞

💣Tour da books💣
🚴🇫🇷🚴🚴🚴🚴

HERE until 6

It’s 🚨national independant bookstore day 🚨 tomorrow

BEAT 🏏
the
crowds

shop TODAY 💰!

Death Is Not The End by Alexander Heir, an out of print collection off Sacred Bones. A sick-minded collection evocative of a full decade plus of punk music and art, the collection features 160 some pages of full body tattoo imagines, Death Traitors iconography, show fliers and more. DM to purchase

Saturday!

Deluge of books you could say

We’ll have a lot of stuff in this week 🎷

We’re reupping on some staples

Filling new displays

ETC 📚