THE STRAND BOOK ANNEX IS CLOSING
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This summer is your last chance to get the best prices on new, used, rare and art books near the Seaport!

Beginning June 30, we're taking an additional 20% off ALL stock, including our world-famous tote bags, t-shirts, umbrellas and other Strand merchandise.

Strand Book Annex

95 Fulton Street, NYC

212-732-6070

Mon-Fri, 9:30-9:00

Sat-Sun, 11:00-8:00

The Strand Book Store at 828 Broadway and the Strand's Central Park Kiosks on 60^th Street and 5^th Ave. will remain open for business as usual.

Currently reading : When You Are Engulfed in Flames By David Sedaris Release date: 2008-06-03

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Special offer! Plus our new $2.99 reusable bag
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Special offer! Bring back any Strand bag when you shop in store, and you’ll receive 25 cents off your purchase. It’s our way of saying thank you for helping to limit the amount of litter on our streets and trash in our landfills.

Announcing our new reusable shopping bag! Made from heavy duty plastic, it’s perfect for your book purchasing needs, a trip to the grocery, or anything else you need to carry around town. (You could easily carry dozens of pairs of argyle socks!) At 16.25" high, 13" wide, and 7" deep, it’ll hold just about anything, and the 16" cloth handles make it easy to carry.



Click here to order

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Strand TV
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Click here to watch Strand TV

The Strand Book Store hosts weekly author and artist events. All events are free and open to the public. Now you never have to miss a Strand Event, even if you can’t attend in person! Thanks to our innovative new Live TV module from Xanga.com, you can watch an event on your PC, either Live as it’s happening or at any time later at your convenience. (family hour events excluded).

Currently listening : Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise By Tiger Army Release date: 29 June, 2004

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FREE Food, Drinks & Prizes All Day!!! And get to see your fav authors
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Celebrate Strand's 80^th Birthday

This Saturday, October 13

11:00AM-6:00PM

Strand Book Store

828 Broadway

Meet some of today's most talked about authors and artists.  Check strandbooks.com for a complete schedule of appearances.

Food, Drinks & Prizes All Day!

Currently reading : Lolita By Vladimir Nabokov Release date: 26 April, 2005

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"Love @ Strand"...Did you fall in love at the Strand?

Did you fall in love at the Strand? Share your story with us! Email christina@strandbooks.com with the subject "Love at Strand."  Please keep your confessionals tasteful and please, please be ligit about your story.

Currently listening : Barry White - All-Time Greatest Hits By Barry White Release date: 07 June, 1994

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2008 Calendars & planners now available $3.95 and up.

New 2008 Calendars

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Gonna be working on our myspace tomorrow.

I'm going to be doing some work on our myspace tomorrow between 5-6pm. If you notice something crazy, don't worry. I'll be changing some HTML codes and other things.

Later,

Romeo

Currently reading : The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition By William Strunk Jr. Release date: 24 August, 1999

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Francesco Clemente: Works 1971-1979 for Sep 17th moved to a later date

The eventy was moved to October 1st 07:00PM - 08:30PM.

See you all at the event.

Currently listening : Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge By My Chemical Romance Release date: 08 June, 2004

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Strand on gothamist.com
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All content on this blog is from www.gothamist.com. read the article HERE

Strand Bookstore turns 80



Photo via ED209uk's Flickr.

NY Mag made note of The Strand Bookstore's birthday over the weekend. The shop, which boasts 18 miles of books, turned 80 on June 2nd, proving it's a mainstay even amongst the Barnes and Noble and Borders book stores popping up around town.

The store was founded by Ben Bass on what was known as Book Row, which at the time housed 48 bookstores. Today it's run by Fred and Nancy Bass. When asked how the business changed over the past 80 years and if people are still as literary as they once were, Fred Bass answered:

I think they are more so. We're a very educated country. When TV came in we thought the book business would die. That wasn't so; the things that appeared on TV started to stimulate the book business. Look at the Ken Burns series on the Civil War — suddenly there was a boom in the book business every time something appeared on TV. Now we're being challenged with the computer and Internet. But the computer is an incredible help to us. Twenty or so percent of our sales are online now. So far today we've had 905 books ordered online, and it's noon. People like to handle and see books, no matter how much material you put online. They want the experience of coming into the store. Plus it's a great place to pick someone up.

Who has clocked in over the years? With over 200 employees, the store gave jobs long ago to Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine. And hiding away in the safe is a $40,000 copy of James Joyce's Ulysses signed by Joyce and Matisse, who did the illustration. A bargain compared to the 1632 published William Shakespeare Second Folio purchased for $100K by an anonymous buyer last year from the store's rare book list.

Currently reading : Ulysses By James Joyce Release date: 16 June, 1990

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Strand staff on New York Magazine
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See all our wonderful employees posing for New York Magazine. I think we're on the cover....and no I'm not in it...oh, I just saw the mag and we're not on the cover....

New York Magazine

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