Brick Row Book Shop (New York, N.Y.)

The Brick Row Bookshop was established in New Haven, Connecticut in 1915 to provide the Yale community with good editions of standard literature. Edmund Byrne Hackett, the first director, was in charge of the business until his death 1953. The shop's original store in New Haven and branch in Princeton, New Jersey were closed during the Depression of the 1930s and consolidated into the New York City location. The shop moved to Austin, Texas in 1954 after its purchase by Frank Gilliam, Hackett's last associated, and then relocated to San Francisco in 1971. Gilliam sold the business to John Crichton in 1983. Throughout its history but especially over the past few decades, the shop has emphasized English and American literature. It also deals in prints and manuscripts.