There's no better time than the home stretch of summer's slow approach - bringing with it, one hopes, some consistently accommodating weather - to check in on the bibliophile's open-air retreat amid Downtown Crossing's retail sprawl: the Brattle's sale lot. We know, of course, that it's not a background of sunny (or warm, or calm, or even dry) weather that matters in the lot. It's the books. And right now there is a dizzying mix of books on all imaginable subjects priced at $5, $3, and $1. The newest arrivals include recently published Business, Management, and Economics titles (published by Wiley, Harvard Business School, and the Productivity Press of Portland, OR, to name a few) and a diverse group of unusual antiquarian books covering subjects like Travel, Exploration, and History. Here's an example:
I will tell you that it's a quaint piece of 1850s Southern Americana marked with a yellow $5 sticker, but that's all the help you get. As regulars know and first-time browsers are bound to discover, the fun is in the search.
And remember, groups of new arrivals in the outside lot invariably mean new arrivals of "better" titles on the same subjects inside the shop.
Happy Hunting!
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