Boston Book Company is our rare book and cataloguing operation at 705 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain, a district of Boston, Massachusetts. In business since 1979, we are now the largest exclusively antiquarian bookshop in the Boston area. The shop occupies the entire second floor (2,500 square feet) of a 19th Century brick building in the downtown area of this Boston neighborhood.

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The PRINCIPALS, Helen Kelly and Charles Vilnis, in business since 1977, are longtime members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. They also belong to the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Antiquarian Booksellers (MARIAB). Recognised as experts, particularly in the field of Japanese printing, they have been called upon many times by colleagues, collectors and institutions for research and appraisal projects. They and the BBC staff wish to welcome you to our bookshops.

OUR STOCK of some 30,000 volumes, available for browsing, includes one of the largest and finest inventories of books relating to Japan and East Asia in the country. In addition to a large general antiquarian stock, the shop has many thousands of literary first editions of the 19th and 20th Centuries, as well.

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HOURS: We are open from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM from Monday through Saturday and by appointment.

, our used bookshop, is located at 906 Beacon Street in Boston near the border of Brookline.

Through the years, we have issued over 50 catalogues of general antiquarian and literary materials, along with 30 catalogues relating to Japan and East Asia. Members of the firm travel extensively in America and Asia, to buy libraries and to attend bookfairs and auctions.

JAMAICA PLAIN, besides being the home of the Boston Book Company, is also an interesting tourist destination in its own right. The famed Arnold Arboretum is there, as is Jamaica Pond (where sailboats may be rented in summer). Franklin Park and its Zoo are nearby. There are many restaurants and architectual gems of the 19th Century in the neighborhood.

For DIRECTIONS and MAPS to find the stores, please follow the link to the appropriate page by clicking the image on your left.

BOOKS ALWAYS WANTED: Because we operate both rare and used book shops, we are able to purchase large and mixed collections and libraries that are beyond the scope of book specialists on one hand and used book dealers on the other. We are ALWAYS interested in purchasing collections, large or small, and can pay top prices. Call us at (617)522-2100 or toll free at (800)653-7767, or email us: mailto:vilnis

Our VIRTUAL BOOKSHOP, inventory search and order system, is among the oldest on the internet. We pioneered the first in-house Web-based, with an e-mail search system in place, as well.