design by colleen lynch 2022

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Look at your book collection



Every book you own should feel like ​there is no other book out there like it.​

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Your bookshelves should be beautiful to you, ​breathe history, and should reflect what you ​love. Buying a book, you are looking to own ​the way it made you feel when you read it, ​what it made you think. They are a part of ​you, the books that connect to you in that ​deep way, the ones you want to own instead ​of borrow. Books last because there is ​something undeniably special in the fact of ​their continued existence across time. ​


♥️ BENNY & LITTLE GIRL

THE BOOKSTORE DOGS

That's why when you buy a book from me, when you hold it in your hands for the first time, you'll know:

There is no other book like tHis!

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about

Bookseller. Bookstore Owner. Former Librarian. Writer. Reader. ​Collector. Essentially, my life is books.


I'm Colleen, the owner of No Other Book Like This. I started this business online at first as ​a side gig, selling on Etsy and specializing in rare and vintage books. This was in 2015, ​just after getting my graduate degree in Library Science, and while on the job hunt I ​began to weed my personal collection of beautiful old books—while I firmly believe you ​can NEVER have too many books, I needed the space and knew they’d each make ​someone else happier, and so a bookstore was the perfect solution. Not necessarily a ​long term career plan, as far as I knew…


Of course I did not foresee how well my online shop would do, and how many followers, ​customers and friends I would make marketing the store and my journey on social media, ​sharing my photography of the books I found and their unique stories with people all ​over the world. The bookstore eventually expanded to having a physical location—​starting up as a brick-and-mortar store in Groton CT first, then relocating to Mystic in ​2022. This fulfilled a dream I hadn’t really known was in the cards, and helped me put to ​practice the small business skills and knowledge I’d fostered as the entrepreneurship and ​social media librarian in New Haven.


I could not be happier with how the store turned out (since I got to design it from the ​ground up!). The shop is warm, inviting, cozy and hopefully a permanent addition to the ​wonderful family of shops and small businesses in the downtown Mystic and Stonington ​area. I hope you find something you like on my ebah store, or come in to the shop in ​person to see all the treasures available only here!


Contact me (see ​contact page for ​options) for any ​bookish questions or ​requests!

Note: I do not buy books, but do offer store credit for donations, no appointment needed!

*I will also order books for you off my online shop accounts at a discount

if I do not have it on hand and you want to avoid Amazon or bigger box bookstores ;)*

visit

HOURS


10am - 6pm

Closed Tuesdays!

(Call for holiday closings)

ADDRESS


3 Roosevelt Avenue

Mystic CT 06355


(Across from the Mystic Train Station)

PARKING


Free! Includes street spots, with five ​labeled spots on opposite end of ​building in the parking lot (the hair salon ​side)

contact

EMAIL


nootherbooklikethis@gmail.com

CALL



(860) 446 0302

NOTE: Our phone number is mobile, so you can text us as well! This is preferred to calls :)

SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGE


@nootherbooklikethis on Instagram and Facebook

#nootherbooklikethis tag us in your pics and posts!

ONLINE STORES


“nootherbook" on ebay - click the eBay button on our front page to go directly there!

“noblt” on etsy - click the etsy button on our front page to go directly there!