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.

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06/05/2026

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-esque First edition, first printing in unclipped dust jacket $12 Locked In: A Department Q Novel Hardcover Jussi A...
06/05/2026

-esque
First edition, first printing in unclipped dust jacket
$12
Locked In: A Department Q Novel Hardcover Jussi Adler-Olsen
$14.1

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EVERYTHING BOGO including box LOTS & ART
We're next door to Alma Cocina and Charles Theatre.
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Ruth #1919 original from A Child's Garden of Verses / Robert Louis Stevenson / Ruth Hallock illustrationcolor pla...
06/05/2026

Ruth #1919 original from A
Child's Garden of Verses / Robert Louis Stevenson / Ruth Hallock illustration
color plate 10"x9"
“Seeking Seashells and Seaweed” – Classic Children’s Art Print – Early 1900s Storybook Wall Decor
$14.1
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EVERYTHING BOGO including box LOTS & ART
We're next door to Alma Cocina and Charles Theatre.
Baltimore CharmCity StationNorth CharlesVillage vintagebooks antiques antiquarianBook read used books $usedbookstore
Discover Bookshop! The only online bookseller where every purchase supports local bookstores. Enjoy 20% off your first order: https://refer.bookshop.org/p6gx2982

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Marshall Field & Co 1896 Illustrated Catalogue Fashion Chicago 1970 $22 Secure it with Venmo to Ned-Sparrow; PayPal or ...
06/04/2026

Marshall Field & Co 1896 Illustrated Catalogue Fashion Chicago 1970 $22
Secure it with Venmo to Ned-
Sparrow; PayPal or Zelle to
[email protected] Apple Pay 443 386 2183 Or $nedSNB to pay me on Cashappand I'll set it aside for you. Mailing /handling media mail at cost.
EVERYTHING BOGO including box LOTS & ART
We're next door to Alma Cocina and Charles Theatre.
Baltimore CharmCity StationNorth CharlesVillage vintagebooks antiques antiquarianBook read books $usedbookstore
Discover Bookshop! The only online bookseller where every purchase supports local bookstores. Enjoy 20% off your first order: https://refer.bookshop.org/p6gx2982

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The Practical Book of Period Furniture by Eberlein & McClure, HB 1st Ed 1914250 illustrations many color plates$22Secure...
06/04/2026

The Practical Book of Period Furniture by Eberlein & McClure, HB 1st Ed 1914
250 illustrations many color plates
$22
Secure it with Venmo to Ned-
Sparrow; PayPal or Zelle to
[email protected] Apple Pay 443 386 2183 Or $nedSNB to pay me on Cashappand I'll set it aside for you. Mailing /handling media mail at cost.
EVERYTHING BOGO including box LOTS & ART
We're next door to Alma Cocina and Charles Theatre.
Baltimore CharmCity StationNorth CharlesVillage vintagebooks antiques antiquarianBook read books $usedbookstore
Discover Bookshop! The only online bookseller where every purchase supports local bookstores. Enjoy 20% off your first order: https://refer.bookshop.org/p6gx2982

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Geoffrey M Footner / Last Generation: a History of Chesapeake Shipbuilding 1st 1991

Coming To Power: Writing and Graphics on Le***an S/M 3rd Edition, Revised & updated
$68
Euthanasia And Religion Gerald A Larue 1985 Paperback $26

The Goddess Companion, Patricia Monaghan, Daily Meditations
$10
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EVERYTHING BOGO including box LOTS & ART
We're next door to Alma Cocina and Charles Theatre.
Baltimore CharmCity StationNorth CharlesVillage vintagebooks antiques antiquarianBook read books $usedbookstore
Discover Bookshop! The only online bookseller where every purchase supports local bookstores. Enjoy 20% off your first order: https://refer.bookshop.org/p6gx2982

https://bookshop.org/a/3895/9798217047802

$9.5
06/04/2026

$9.5

Ian, Andy, & Gavin, converging from their desperate realms, finding the treasures
06/02/2026

Ian, Andy, & Gavin, converging from their desperate realms, finding the treasures

What A Young Girl Ought To Know Mary Wood-Allen 1905 $20 A Ought To Know Mary -Allen 1905
06/02/2026

What A Young Girl Ought To Know Mary Wood-Allen 1905 $20
A Ought To Know Mary -Allen 1905

The Goddess Companion, Patricia Monaghan, Daily Meditations$10Secure it with Venmo to Ned-Sparrow; PayPal or Zelle to Pr...
06/02/2026

The Goddess Companion, Patricia Monaghan, Daily Meditations
$10
Secure it with Venmo to Ned-
Sparrow; PayPal or Zelle to
[email protected] Apple Pay 443 386 2183 Or $nedSNB to pay me on Cashappand I'll set it aside for you. Mailing /handling media mail at cost.
EVERYTHING BOGO including box LOTS & ART
We're next door to Alma Cocina and Charles Theatre.
Baltimore CharmCity StationNorth CharlesVillage vintagebooks antiques antiquarianBook read books $usedbookstore
Discover Bookshop! The only online bookseller where every purchase supports local bookstores. Enjoy 20% off your first order: https://refer.bookshop.org/p6gx2982

https://bookshop.org/a/3895/9798217047802

$9.4
06/02/2026

$9.4

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34 E. Lanvale
Baltimore, MD
21202

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Tuesday 9am - 2pm
Wednesday 9am - 2pm
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