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Fred Bass, driving force behind New York's iconic Strand used–book store, dead at 89 Berkshire Eagle On weekends he attended estate sales, amassing even more books. "It's a disease," he told New York magazine in 1977. "I get an attack, something like a panic, of book-buying. I simply must keep fresh used books flowing over my shelves. And every day … Fred Bass, owner of Strand Book Store in New York City, has died … |
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New York’s Used Book Stores Are Having a Moment – Wall Street Journal
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New York's Used Book Stores Are Having a Moment
Wall Street Journal Little known fact: New York, the publishing capital of the world, is actually a collection of islands overlaying a slow-moving, subterranean tide of used books. The relentless, inexorable flow of review copies, uncorrected proofs, used paperbacks and … |