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Located in Greenwich Village, Mercer Street Books and Records has been tracking down, buying, and selling interesting, esoteric, and weird books for over twenty years. They stock used, out-of-print, and new books in almost any subject, as well as LPs.
In 2009, Brian Leitgeb and his wife opened Mast Books on Avenue A in New York City’s East Village. The shop’s prices remain modest and affordable, and the collection of used books reflects Leitgeb’s personal taste—including literary fiction and poetry.
James Cummins Bookseller was founded in 1978 and is located on Madison Avenue in New York City. The Madison Avenue store is a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art.
An established downtown Manhattan institution, the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe is staffed almost entirely by volunteers and one hundred percent of profits go to Housing Works—a healing community of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS whose mission is to end the dual crises of homelessness and AIDS through relentless advocacy, the provision of lifesaving services, and entrepreneurial businesses that sustain their efforts. They carry an extensive book, movie, and music selection, host special events, and have a fully stocked cafe.
East Village Books is a used bookstore that takes in close to five hundred used books a week including scholarly libraries, art and photography books, literature and science fiction, and buyback textbooks. Estate libraries are their specialty and a buyer is usually available during store hours.
Donald Herald Rare Books, Prints & Maps offers antiquarian books and prints in the areas of botany, ornithology, natural history, Americana and Canadiana, Native Americans, voyages and travels, maps and atlases, photography, and more. The shop was founded in England in 1972, and they are renowned for their extensive print inventory, including the complete print stock of Ackermann & Son of London, established in 1783.
Chartwell is a bookstore in the classic tradition. Since 1983 they have been selling rare and out-of-print Winston Churchill books, as well as books on the military, motor cars, baseball, photography, jazz, classic fiction, and nonfiction. The store is named after Sir Winston Churchill’s home in England's Kent countryside, and is the only standing bookshop in the world devoted to his writings.
Books of Wonder opened on September 2, 1980, as a bookshop specializing in antique children’s books. Today, the shop stocks new titles as well as beloved classics and still has a large selection of old, rare, and collectible children's books. Many events have been held here over the years by prominent authors including Madeleine L’Engle and Eric Carle.
B&B Rare Books specializes in eighteenth to twentieth-century American, British, and French literature, modern first editions, poetry, mystery and detective fiction, children's literature, and signed and inscribed books. After graduating from college and moving to New York City, Joshua Mann and Sunday Steinkirchner opened B&B Rare Books inspired by their shared love for rare books and literature.
Argosy Book Store has been in business for eighty-nine years, making it New York City’s oldest independent book store. Now in its third generation of family ownership, Argosy has an extensive stock of antiquarian and out-of-print items. The store specializes in Americana, modern first editions, autographs, art, antique maps and prints, and the history of science and medicine.
