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The Last Bookstore

The Last Bookstore is an independent bookstore located at 453 S Spring Street, Downtown Los Angeles. Conde Nast Traveler called it California’s largest new and used bookstore.[1]

Industry

2005 (2005)

Josh Spencer

,
United States

1 store

New, used and rare books

Josh Spencer

50+

Media[edit]

Filmmaker Chad Howitt chronicled The Last Bookstore and its owner, Spencer, in a short documentary titled Welcome to the Last Bookstore, released in 2016. It tells the story of how Spencer was injured as a young man and lost the use of his legs, forcing him to re-examine his life.[7] Los Angeles Film Review called the effort an "ode to resilience."[8]

In popular culture[edit]

The bookstore appeared in the 2014 David Fincher movie Gone Girl, and also in the 2018 movie Under the Silver Lake, directed by David Robert Mitchell.[9][10]


The bookstore featured in the 2021 Netflix series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.[11]

Official website

The Atlantic

"The Man Behind 'The Last Bookstore'"