Book Row

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Book Row was a district in New York City from the 1890s to the 1960s composed of six city blocks that held over 36 bookstores. The only bookstore remaining from the row is the Strand Bookstore. In the district, there were over one million books.[1][2][3][4][5]

References

  1. ^ Society, The Saturday Evening Post. "The Bibliomaniacs of Book Row | The Saturday Evening Post". www.saturdayeveningpost.com. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  2. ^ "Book Row Is Gone, But Used Bookshops Aren't". The New York Times. 1988-03-13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  3. ^ "4th Avenue: The History of NYC's Lost "Book Row"". Untapped Cities. 2015-08-26. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  4. ^ Publishers Weekly. R.R. Bowker Company. 1917.
  5. ^ McDade, Travis (2013-06-07). Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199339532.