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Arundel Books is on the northeast corner of First Avenue South and South Jackson Street in Seattle’s Pioneer Square.
It now carries signed copies of Washington Wide.
The building dates to 1900. It opened as a Seattle facility of the Capital Brewing Company of Olympia, which became the Olympia Brewing Company in 1902. For decades it was home to Flury & Co., a gallery known for its Edward Curtis photographs. Arundel moved in in February 2021. Tall wooden shelves run up under an arched white ceiling.
Phil Bevis, who started as a bookseller on Los Angeles’s Booksellers Row, founded Arundel in Los Angeles in 1984 as a fine press publishing art and poetry. He named it for Sir Bevis, a medieval romance he found in a bookstore while taking a bookbinding class. He opened the Seattle store in 1995. Today it sells new, used and antiquarian books and work by local artists. It also runs Chatwin Books, a small press, and a printing and binding shop with a vintage letterpress.
Washington Wide is a 172-page hardcover of panoramic film photographs from 30+ years across Washington State, shot on Fuji Velvia 50. Randy Lewis, a Colville elder and storyteller, wrote the foreword. It is $59.99 at washingtonwide.com, with free shipping in the contiguous US.
Arundel is at 322 First Avenue South. It is worth the stop if you are in Pioneer Square.