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The Strand Bookstore
Author: Pauls Bankovskis0 COMMENTS
This Greenwich Village family-owned bookstore, founded on 16 August 1949, is exactly what its name suggests: it reminds of a beach on which books - rare, second-hand, slightly tattered by bookshop browsers or simply bleached by the sun in shop windows - are washed ashore. Next to antiquary rarities stacked in the numerous bookcases, under the staircases and anywhere else, you will find quite recent editions, many of which still grace the "new releases" sections of other bookstores - and that's for half the price or even less. Strand is proud to call itself not only one of the largest independent bookshops (as opposed to outlets of giant bookseller chains) but also the largest second-hand bookstore in the world (in this regard its biggest rival is Powell's Books in Portland).
828 Broadway (at East 12th Street)
www.strandbooks.com
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