Pegasus Books

I love bookstores especially independent ones that sell used books. Asked the front desk for assistance and she was quick to help. Offered to order a book that they didn't have. Bought 3 books, 1 new/2 used total under $40. Great bargain! Would def come back. Need to check out the Oakland location.

Love coming here to spend some time just browsing around for new items to read & getting lost in the world of books.

I still love and shop at Pegasus. I was there today to pick up wall calendars for Alan and me. They didn't have the California landscape calendars we usually gravitate towards, but I got him a New Zealand one and me a San Francisco one. Over the years I have bought a number of books here, avoiding Amazon as much as possible. The staff are knowledgeable and friendly and if you wait as long as I did this year, there are no lines around the store to buy calendars. Maybe that's why they didn't have the California landscape one, though. I waited too long. Needless to say, I will be back.

Wonderful medley of knowledge. There was a pretty large section of children's books and a few in different languages. I'll be coming here first for the next book I read.

The bookstore was very well ventilated and had a variety of unique books. My favorite book I found was a 1952 chess book that had original documents from chess matches in 1954.

No longer pays cash for books. I took some art and photography books there to sell recently -- some vintage and rare. I've sold books there for years and our family still buys books there.

The were very polite but told me that they're trade-only now.

I've chalked it up to challenges in the retail book business so I'm definitely not upset with them at all.

That said it was a bit of an eye-opener about how much monetary value our books now have in the digital age.

I don't go to Berkeley very often. In fact I hadn't been to this part of Berkeley in at least 3 or 4 years, I had never been inside Pegasus.

I have well a defined library and as much as I would love to simply impulse shop I have very specific items I am looking for and very specific genres that I consume.
Mostly this comes down to cooking, travel, cartography, historical cartography, artistic cartography, photography, other art and gardening. Here they have a wonderful selection of art books. Books of art, about art and how to art. I found a few things I had been looking for used.

The staff was super chill and way helpful.

I had some light business in the area and decided to get lunch next door. My visit was primarily a way to kill time and empty my wallet.

Working at a bookstore is a labor of love -- I know firsthand. Pegasus has been a gem for decades, a place to browse, for letting serendipity guide you to that undiscovered book or music that becomes a part of your life. The staff there goes above and beyond, and to prove it they contacted me about a recent online order just to make sure I hadn't accidentally ordered an inferior copy of a classic. They also sponsor school book fairs!

great selection, chill vibe, knowledgeable staff. My neice and nephew love taking me here when we visit from out of town.

It may be the only bookstore on Solano Avenue or at least the only one worth a reasonable browse. I'm most familiar with their College Avenue store since it was just a block from the Rockridge BART station where I used to commute. But now that my life has moved from summer to autumn with a few of my leaves discolored and falling off, this outlet is now the one closest to me. The irony is that the clientele actually does seem older here. It also feels a little bigger but just as densely stocked with no place to sit, which I assume is an intentional business decision. But even though Amazon provides deep discounts, Pegasus is an indie that deserves my support like purchasing local legend Betty Reid Soskin's bio, "Sign My Name to Freedom", here (photo: http://bit.ly/2Di55AS).

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