- California Bookstores (a few are in the image above)
- U.S. Bookstores outside California (A-L)
- U.S. Bookstores outside California (M-Z)
- International Bookstores (A-K)
- International Bookstores (L-Z)
- Wallace & Scott - Civil War
- Wallace & Scott - Ian Fleming
Someday, I hope to put all of these scanned images in a proper website, searchable by name or city or state.
Of course, I began by simply saving bookstore bookmarks that I picked up when I visited bookstores. I still seek out bookstores when I travel.
In the 1970s and 1980s, I began writing to bookstores I heard about or found in the American Booksellers Association online directory. I would send them a self-addressed stamped envelope and ask for a bookmark. In those years, every bookstore had a store bookmark.
Sadly, there are fewer and fewer independent bookstores these days, and many no longer have store bookmarks. Now I email asking if they have a store bookmark and, if so, would they send me one if I send them a SASE.
It shouldn't have surprised me, but it did, when, in 2009, I found a website devoted to bookmarks, including a list of bookmark collectors interested in exchanging bookmarks with others! Of course, I added myself to that list, and since then, have exchanged bookmarks with folks in England, Spain, and Australia, as well as the U.S.
If you have bookstore bookmarks that I don't already have, I would love to hear from you! If you want to send them to me, here's my postal address:
Rodney Hoffman
P.O. Box 41768
Los Angeles, CA 90041
