Mystery Pier Books, Inc.

Down a tiny corridor off Sunset is an adorable old house, home of Mystery Pier Books, Inc. Being in this bookshop is like being at a museum where you get to buy the exhibits; beautiful, rare first editions, collectible, out-of-print and signed books populate these shelves. The staff are more like gracious hosts than salespeople, and have the answer to literally any question about their stock and beyond. If you have a collector's item in mind, this is the place to find it—plan to spend a decent amount here, accordingly. Mystery Pier is just down the street from Book Soup, so you can hit both stores in the same day (we think you'll walk out of here a bit more wowed, if a bit more broke).