Alexander Book Co.

Welcome to Alexander Book Company -

Your Downtown San Francisco Bookstore

Academy of Art University New and Used Textbooks Available. Call for used textbook availability.

With three floors stocked with over 50,000 new books to browse and shop, Alexander Book Company is a full-service independent bookstore, conveniently located in San Francisco near Bart and Muni Metro (Montgomery Street Station). We have all categories of books and feature extensive African-American, Children's and Graphic Design Departments. Our complimentary services include, special orders, gift-wrap, and author/book signing events.

This web site offers you the convenience to search and order any “book in print” 24 hours a day. The book search capability will offer you the ability to search for books beyond our store’s inventory. If we do not have the book you ordered in stock, we will contact you and let you know the availability. Usually any book in our inventory will ship within 48 hours. You may also choose to pick up your book at our store, in which case we will notify you when the book is ready for pick up. You can always contact us directly to check the availability of a title at our store. (Take note: A book listed in our database does not mean this book is currently available in our store.)

Sale prices shown online are good for online purchases only. In-store items and prices may vary from online prices.

You too can actively support your community by choosing to shop at locally owned business' such as Alexander Book. A recent study conducted in Austin,TX found for every $100 spent at a locally owned bookstore, $45 stayed in the community as opposed to only $13 when compared to a Border's in the area.

Indie Next List

Informative titles on the importance of building and strengthening a vibrant local economy.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Kingsolver, Barbara, Kingsolver, Camille
“Tracing the food year, Kingsolver—with her characteristic candor, poetry, and grace—brings us meditations on asparagus, turkeys, tomatoes, and mulch as she and her family try to eat locally as much as they can. This is a distinct hybrid of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Under the Tuscan Sun, and Walden.” —Matt Plies, Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, OR

Store Events

Alexander's is honored to have these authors appear at our store.

Title of Event: Black Passager Yellow Cabs: Of Exile and Excess in Japan
When: Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:30 PM
Location: Alexander Book Co.
Description: Black Passenger Yellow Cabs is an erotic auto/ethnographic memoir exploring in easy lay person's terms the socio-psycho-sexual dynamics of Japan and the erotic capital of the Western male. An exploration of deviant behaviour in an "exotic land" and a journey from self-destruction to self-actualization.