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Welcome to A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books

Welcome to the Internet home page for A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books -- a cathode-ray extension of our incandescently lit locations.


Store Locations and Events

Check out what's happening at our three locations:

Open 7Days, 10:00 AM to 11:00PM
'til Midnight Fridays &Saturdays


Best of the Books

Our staff members(naturally!) read a lot of books. The staff recommendations is a list of what they feel are the best booksthey have read in the last year. This briefly annotated list representsonly a portion of the diverse books that they championed.


Order Forms

  1. Ordering Books

  2. Special Orders

  3. Return Policies


Staff Recommendations

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage Paperback, $13.00)
Young Billy Parham traps a she-wolf and decides to return her to the mountains across the Mexican border.
Shipping News by E. Anne Proulx (Simon & SchusterPaperback,$12.00)
The unblessed, hapless Quoyle retreats to his ancestral home in Newfoundland with his two daughters and take-charge aunt. Winner of thePulitzer Prize for fiction.
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien (Houghton Mifflin Paperback, $21.95)
The hero's traumatic Vietnam past intrudes upon his present political ambitions in this totally absorbing novel.

How to Contact A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books

For additional information, please send e-mail to info@www.bookstore.com, phone us at +1 415-441-6670, or fax your request to +1 415-567-6885. If you have problems or comments concerning our Web service, please send e-mail to the following address: webmaster@www.bookstore.com

You can also contact us via ground mail at

A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books
601 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
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