Station North Books

Station North Books Come book tour! English professor collecting since 1987. Signed, pretty bindings, literature, histo

We are now a brick-and-mortar book and antiques store across from Baltimore’s Penn station. Signed, leather bindings, history, literature, art, Marylandia. We have gone from one train station up in Lutherville to just north of Baltimore’s own, between Charles and Saint Paul. Trains sounded different in that old Victorian general store, built in 1881 and located just across the tracks from the old

train station of Lutherville. The sound of the light rail evokes not so much the commuters passing the beltway north on the old Ma and Pa (MD and Pennsylvania) Line, or workers heading south towards Ruxton and Mt. Washington and Baltimore, but the commerce and industry of the nineteenth century. The earlier age is evoked in period furniture and paintings, a deep red rococo revival settee from 1856, not in crushed velvet as the auctioneer had described it, but in cotton silk. A former English professor and modernist literary scholar, Sparrow takes some relish in sorting out “all the past that’s living and fit to live,” as Ezra Pound had it. Many books, says the professor, “I keep around because they’re just too handsome not to admire.” Those pretty books, folios and quartos in tooled leather bindings, are prized by decorators as well as readers and collectors. Today there are over 9,000 books, many first editions, and many signed, ranging from literature and art to history and music. The past retains its usefulness: in the post-office addition to the main general store, Sparrow catalogues new arrivals, a stack of Twain to his left as he writes painstaking descriptions of the books, a leather bound Century Magazine annual on the floral pattern cookbook stand to his right, gently opened to the table of contents. Until the 1950s the store was open shelves and kegs of flour and oil and penny candy in tubs, and Messrs. Rogers and, before him, Leisenring, were also the postmasters of the small town. They might be content to know that commerce continues in this home.

Dawn!
09/10/2026

Dawn!

Raymond arrived @ recommendation of his son Baltimore Bicycle Works
09/10/2026

Raymond arrived @ recommendation of his son Baltimore Bicycle Works

Outside books open for browsing 24/7
09/10/2026

Outside books open for browsing 24/7

Mike!
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Mike!

Taxicabs: a Photographic History Pub. 1980 Austin Humber Beardmore Argyll Morris Photographic History Pub. 1980 ...
09/10/2026

Taxicabs: a Photographic History Pub. 1980 Austin Humber Beardmore Argyll Morris Photographic History Pub. 1980 Morris $20

1982 LEGACY OF THE LAND 250 Years Agriculture County Maryland Carol Lee $18.8 OF THE LAND 250 Years Agriculture Ma...
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1982 LEGACY OF THE LAND 250 Years Agriculture County Maryland Carol Lee $18.8 OF THE LAND 250 Years Agriculture Maryland Carol Lee

by Lisa Phillips 1992 Abrams Hardcover English Art Richard Prince by Lisa Phillips 1992 Hardcover English Art Book ...
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by Lisa Phillips 1992 Abrams Hardcover English Art Richard Prince by Lisa Phillips 1992 Hardcover English Art Book $88 in good+ DJ

$10
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$10

Vinyl, too!
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Vinyl, too!

my $48
09/08/2026

my $48

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34 E. Lanvale
Baltimore, MD
21202

Opening Hours

Monday 9:01am - 2pm
Tuesday 9am - 2pm
Wednesday 9am - 2pm
Thursday 10am - 2pm
Friday 10:01am - 2pm
Saturday 11:30am - 2:08pm
Sunday 11:01am - 3pm

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+14433862183

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