second hand book shops

[shashydhar]

hi

are there any good second book shops in NYC? manhattan is
preferred but brooklyn will also be great. I know people are running
helter skelter right now in the name of hurricane, but when holed up
at home, nothing to do, I'm sure my mail will get some attention :P

ciao!
sashidhar

[joe moyer]

The Strand on 12th and Broadway by Union Square is great.  Not exactly dirt cheap or anything but they have it all.

[Amanda Glassman]

Housing Works in Soho has tons of $1 books and a lot of cheap stuff in general. The book stalls on 6th Ave near the West 4th subway stop also have good prices...plus you can bargain a bit (politely).

Amanda

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[JaredSeth]

It's not secondhand but remaindered books, but Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books on Carmine Street offers great prices.

[David Gwilliam]

Alabaster, around the corner from the Strand (on 4th ave between 12th and 13th) is a spectacular little used book store. Absolutely spectacular.

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 3:46 PM, JaredSeth <jare...@gmail.com> wrote:

It's not secondhand but remaindered books, but Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books on Carmine Street offers great prices.

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[Alex Collazo]

unoppressive non-imperialist book store? Lulwut?! What, is it like a
store for books on communism or something, or apologetics for Hamas or
something crazy like that?. I've never heard of an Oppressive and
Imperialist book store before, let alone one that was both
Unoppressive and non-Imperialist. Unoppressive isn't even a word.

On Aug 27, 3:46 pm, JaredSeth <jareds...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not secondhand but remaindered books, but Unoppressive Non-Imperialist

> Bargain Books <http://unoppressivebooks.blogspot.com/> on Carmine Street
> offers great prices.

[David Gwilliam]

http://www.wordnik.com/words/apologist

i always thought apologist was a bad thing until recently. it's just a thing, not a bad thing.

not that you necessarily think that apologists for hamas are bad people, just TIL.

[Gabriel Johnson]

1) Wiktionary [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unoppressive] and dictionary.com [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unoppressive?qsrc=2446] disagree.

2) Some lefty stuff (think The Zapatista Reader), but as far as I remember mostly "normal" books (I bought my copy of Catch-22 there for not too much money).

3) Unoppressive presumably meaning they're not owned by some big, stock market traded corporate chain that helps to perpetuate Big Capitalism? Any single bookstore's contribution to existing systems of global oppression is probably miniscule, but  there's some. (Also: it is just a name.)

--glj

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lolowned

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[JaredSeth]

It's pretty much a regular bookstore but you won't find new releases
there, as their stock consists of remaindered titles. That said, it's
a great place to pick up classics cheap (we're talking less than 10
bucks for trade paperbacks and hardbacks, often less than 5) and they
do have a fairly decent selection of travel guides, art books,
children's fantasy titles, biographies and philosophy titles.

Jared