Balfour Books

Balfour is the College Street second-hand and antiquarian room: 468 College, Joyce Blair behind the desk, art and photography hardcovers, vintage editions, poetry, philosophy, cookbooks, children's leftovers, and the paperback you meant to read. Official balfourbooks.squarespace.com still posts daily 12 p.m.–6 p.m., phone (416) 531-9911, balfourbooks@gmail.com. ABAC lists it as an open shop that buys books and does appraisals. First-timers: this is closer to Monkey's Paw than to BMV — smaller, more visual, more 'who put this 1974 fashion plate next to a new paperback.' Come after noon; there is no morning window. College streetcar, a few doors from She Said Boom if you want a used-book double feature.