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...bookselling business in Harvard Square has always been competitive. Smaller neighborhood stores like Grolier Poetry Bookshop, the Harvard Book Store, Schoenhof's Foreign Books and WordsWorth have coexisted with the mammoth Coop by hiring personable and knowledgeable clerks and by carving out a niche in the Square's unique market...
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Bradley S. Epps says that because he teaches most of his classes in Spanish, he habitually orders through Schoenhof's rather than the Coop...
...Schoenhof's is one of the premier foreign bookstores in the country," he says. "They have a very experienced staff...
...Indeed, Schoenhof's Store Manager Rupert A. Davis insists on employee expertise...
After Grolier and Starr, any other bookstore (conventional or no) in Harvard Square would be anticlimactic, but Schoenhof's Foreign Books really disappoints. Its bright blue carpet and uniformly shiny particle board shelves scream expense. To its credit, it does stock books in languages ranging from French to Cornish and Babylonian. Unfortunately, at Harvard, the romance of the other is often translated into pretension rather than unconventionality. As Elizabeth C. Oelsner '00, who spends entirely too much time in the Schoenhof's building, comments, "Foreign books are nicer. They're pretty. They're small. They're expensive," none of which...