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Left Bank Books Collective is an anarchist
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Left Bank Books Collective is an anarchist bookstore
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, founded in 1973, in Seattle
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, Washington. It is located at 92 Pike Street, in the Corner Market
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building at Pike Place Market
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. Its Lonely Planet
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review states that it "displays zines in ''español'', revolutionary pamphlets, essays by Chomsky and an inherent suspicion of authority."
The store hosts occasional events that are described among the "top 15 things to do this week" or similar reviews in Seattle. It is also a small publisher and it ran an IndieGoGo fundraising campaign in 2014, when it had been operating for 40 years.
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Official site
1973 establishments in Washington (state) Anarchist bookstores Bookstores established in the 20th century Independent bookstores of the United States Infoshops Worker cooperatives of the United States Pike Place Market Central Waterfront, Seattle {{US-retail-company-stub