At the end of my uphill trek, I ended up outside one of my favorite bookstores: Bruised Apple Books. I was tired and very thirsty, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go in and look around. Thankfully it was air-conditioned.

The store describes itself as follows:

The Bruised Apple is as far from the big corporate bookstores as you can get. From the hand painted sign above the front door to the numerous hidden (and not so hidden) clippings and letters that decorate the store, everything is personalized by the family and friends of the Bruised Apple. Since 1993 we have been buying selling and trading all sorts of used, out of print and sometimes truly rare books, records and now also CDs and movies. We also carry an interesting selection of new books and maps about history and the outdoors in the Hudson Valley. We have about 50,000 titles organized into about 200 subject headings that are comfortably nestled along aisles wide enough to avoid the dreaded claustrophobia…

I ended up coming out with two books in used but decent condition: Magnum Landscape and Photography: Essays and Images.

Taken with a Sony RX10 IV