Ten Years After

Back in the winter of 2015 I walked into what was then Gregers Antikvariat and had what might well be called a moment of truth. At the time, second hand bookstores seemed to be vestiges of the past, doomed to oblivion in the brave new world of Amazon and ebooks. When I asked Greger Antoft about the possibility of taking over his store, which he had decided to vacate after many years of operation, he told me that he now did most of his book-selling on the internet, and could just as well move exclusively into ecommerce.

As a lifelong lover of books and used bookstores, who had recently moved to Malmö, I took his words as something of a challenge and soon decided to make a go of it. Running a second-hand bookstore and, in the process, giving it a more international flavor to serve Malmö’s increasingly multicultural population, seemed to be well worth doing, especially for a newly retired professor with time on his hands.

And now, ten years later Andy’s Corner is one of four second-hand bookstores on Helmfeltsgatan, as we welcome our new neighbor, Antikvariat Artes to Malmö’s own book street, along with Bokfinken and Atlantis. So come by and browse to your heart’s content. If one of us doesn’t have the book you wanted maybe we have something even better, the book you didn’t know you needed.