To consider the past, the present and the future with an equal mind is often the purpose of literature and is certainly the story of the human condition: molded by the past, yet inevitably changed by the future. Lost City Books is a rediscovery of both, a chance to visit diverse places, ideas, time periods and experiences. To be curious --emotionally, intellectually, psychologically -- about the world, the mind, and the imagination is to be an explorer, always between shores, weighing the latest discoveries with what is tested true. Lost City Books is the place for explorers, for deep divers, who want the books they find to take them to a new horizon.

Our logo came from our desire to invoke the mystery of open doorways and the steps leading to the unknown, the occult and deeply spiritual symbolism of the moon. We were inspired by German expressionism and woodcuts. The shape of the doorway was inspired by the wrought iron street call boxes all over DC. These call boxes, no longer used for their original purpose, are very much an object out of time, an anachronistic object present in our current lives. This seemed a fitting shape to inform the logo of our bookstore. Its the combination of our rich histories, our passionate presence, and our bright futures that make Lost City Books the ever-growing community that it is.