Let’s get intimate

Welcome to the most exquisite world of Le Flaneur Amsterdam, a gem for book lovers hidden in plain sight bordering the beautiful and cozy Jordaan and always attractive and hectic negenstraatjes. Enter this gate of wonder and the...

No, no. Really?

Le Flaneur is an ordinary, second hand bookstore, and proudly a physical one. This is an ordinary bookstore, meaning that, we mostly stock ordinary editions and wish to cater for ordinary people. Le Flaneur is not a classical antiquarian, or seller of rare books, which we consider important in their own ways, but we are more in love with the letter, rather than the envelope. We also sell “things” in that sense, first editions, antiquarian stuff, but do not necessarily chase them, and keep our energy to offer books that matter, so that everybody reads and we live ordinarily.

This is a second hand bookstore. It comes with the idea that people can lighten their reading lists without large holes in their budgets and extra weight on the planet. However trivial, it may turn a behavior, once they catch themselves thinking the difference between buying second hand and new beyond purses. Then they may relentlessly leap to think the meaning of buying, and all that white noise of production. Not of books of course. Second hand bookstores may stimulate thinking.

This is a physical bookstore. This gets serious. We are brick and mortar because we are more than economic transactions. We are an element of the city and give it yet another color, contributing to a common memory, and contrary to the city, being physical for us is an ode to imagining things different; slowness, coincidence, idleness, resistance, creation. Only we need suitable physical spaces. Supposedly as all other bookshops small and big marked by serious readers and idle spirits around the world, this is an open house where daily life takes place with care, understanding and good manners. Drop by when you are available.