About Us

The Globe Corner Bookstores carries one of North America's largest selections of books and maps for the traveller. We provide a full range of travel and outdoor recreation reference materials for a destination: guidebooks, maps, atlases, recreation guides, travel literature, nature guides, photography books, cookbooks, and language products.

Our selection of globes, world and regional wall maps, historic map reproductions, satellite views, world atlases, and nautical books complement destination-oriented books and maps.

Opened in 1982, the Globe Corner Bookstores has been named Best Specialty Bookstore and Best Bookstore--Travel by Boston Magazine. Globecorner.com launched in 1995, making it the first American book and map store on the web.

GCB Green Practices
The Globe Corner Bookstores has been committed to being a green business.  We have recycled cardboard boxes and paper for close to 20 years. In 2005, we became one of a small number of bookstores worldwide operating in a LEED-certified building, at 90 Mt. Auburn Street.

Our relocation to a green building included re-use of existing fixtures (bookcases, displays and lighting fixtures). Our purchases in the physical build-out of the store were limited to new computer and communications equipment! We continue to explore ways to operate in a more energy efficient and environmentally conscious manner.

We appreciate our customers' increasing consideration of the need for plastic bags for purchases. In fair weather, we'll continue to ask if customers would like a bag.  We understand that a plastic bag is sometimes needed and are gratified by customers' comments about their re-use of our bags.

Store Info:
Read here about our Harvard Square location.