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When most people in the upper Midwest think of Stillwater, they are thinking of great food, antiques and the beautiful St. Croix Valley. When people in Vienna, Tokyo, Oxford or Manila think of Stillwater, they are thinking about books.
Stillwater, North America’s first Booktown, has been the destination of countless book collectors, librarians and bibliophiles from all over the world for twenty years. They often fly over New York, Chicago or L.A. to get to us. In the world of books, Stillwater is serious business.
King Richard Booth, the self-proclaimed monarch of the first Booktown in the world, Hay-on-Wye in Wales, personally named Stillwater a Booktown at the first annual Stillwater Book Fair held in October, 1995.
 There are over 450,000 books for sale in downtown Stillwater. At the North end of town, Valley Booksellers offers an excellent selection of current children’s and general interest books, along with a captivating aviary of rare birds. St. Croix Antiquarian Booksellers carries a wide variety of scarce and collectible books in all subject areas. Stillwater’s newest and largest bookshop, Loome Antiquarian Booksellers, houses a breathtaking array of well over 150,000 books in every conceivable subject, along with a huge variety of framed and matted maps and prints. Loome Theological Booksellers, located at 320 N. 4th Street, is the largest North American specialist in theology, philosophy, and religious history, with a stock of over 250,000 volumes. |
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