...they support us.
In honor of our 200th Classic (the very fine, very touching, and very dark The Engagement by Georges Simenon) independent bookstores around the country are putting on special NYRB Classics displays. Please visit them and spend money when you do!
[The photograph above shows 4th Avenue in NYC as it looked once upon a time, when it was known for its used bookstores. Now there's only one store on that stretch, Alabaster (which has a great, selective selection). But 4th Avenue is where The Strand Bookstore got its start—so we needn't mourn too much!]
New York City
Crawford-Doyle
Three Lives
The Strand
McNally Robinson
Mid-Atlantic
Watchung Booksellers (Montclair, NJ)
Joseph Fox (Philadelphia)
Farley's (New Hope, PA)
Northeast
New England Mobile Book Fair (Newton HIghlands, MA)
Harvard Bookstore (Cambridge, MA)
West Coast
Bloomsbury Books (Ashland, OR)
Compass Books (San Francisco International Airport)
Elliott Bay (Seattle, WA)
Our thanks goes out to all of these booksellers and to their excellent staffs!
And if there are any bookstores not on this list that are interested in participating in this promotion, the Random House sales staff is still signing up shops.
We have "Half-Priced Books" but they are hardly an independent bookstore, just a reduced version of a megastore like Borders or B&N. There are quite a few others but they are on the East side of the city and I hardly get there once a year.
Posted by: JCR | April 06, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Hi, I have two bookstores in northeast Georgia. Hall Book Exchange in Gainesville and Mt. Yonah Book Exchange in Cleveland. Hall Book Exchange is 24 years old with approximately 100,000 new and used books. Mt. Yonah Book Exchange is two months old with approximately 15,000 new and used books. We carry a great variety of fiction/non-fiction titles. Thank you for your support of indies!
Posted by: Myra Meade | April 05, 2007 at 12:36 PM