Alley Cat Books

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Alley Cat Books

Amazing shelf talkers.

Come in because you're meandering. Leave knowing that you've improved your life by hitting up one of the best bookstores in SF. The pulp, the cards, the magazines, and the square dancing in the back.

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  • David Edelson

    Amazing shelf talkers.

  • Clare

    Second best used book store in the city

  • Jiexi Cao

    Really adorable bookshop

  • Lindsay Eyink

    The sister store of Dog Ear on Valencia. Well curated, nice staff, easy to spend hours in here.

  • Maggie Mason

    Gallery in back.

  • Kian Lavi

    Dogeared's little sister. Love their focus on Latinx/POC-Written books, zines and a great sci-fi collection

  • Alyssa W

    Such a cool bookstore. Great recs - it's a treasure trove inside.

  • Ernesto Voltaggio

    You can spend hours there, great place and a lot of used design books at good prices

  • Dave Zhou

    Come in because you're meandering. Leave knowing that you've improved your life by hitting up one of the best bookstores in SF. The pulp, the cards, the magazines, and the square dancing in the back.

  • Peter

    Love it here! Great and huge mix of used and new books. Found exactly what I was looking for - although had trouble finding Twain at the bottom of the huge book-shelf.

  • Rem Koning

    Large vegetable books. Also excellent place to sell used books back.

  • André

    Beautiful bookstore in the mission. Too easy to spent a ton of money here...

  • David Strasser

    A great place to part with your money.

  • squeasel

    Excellent selection and recommendations. Hard to leave without arm-strain from carrying all the must-have books you find here.

  • Helen Situ

    2nd Thursday's of the month there is a poetry reading! Voz Sin Tinta

  • static_signal

    Fantastic selection of Dalkey Archive, Melville House, NYRB, and other small presses, plus really warm + knowledgable booksellers.

  • Gonzalo

    Best in the area. Gran colección de literatura española.

  • Thalith Nasir

    Play a game of ping pong in the back

  • Miwa Nagamitsu Ahlstrom

    There's a ping pong table in the back:)

  • annie 🧸

    Don't miss the art books and records nestled in the back area, which at times doubles as an impromptu space for music and poetry reading.

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