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Argosy Book Store

Opens Thursday at 11:00 AM

Midtown, New York

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"the real secret? The basement"

Check the second floor for vintage maps and posters

Ground floor has bargain paperbacks from $3

Argosy Book Store is a six-floor time capsule of rare books, antique maps, and literary oddities that has been family-owned since 1925. Lose yourself in the basement's scholarly warren of philosophy and first editions, or browse vintage atlases under warm wood paneling and green banker's lamps.

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Argosy Book Store

116 E 59th St, New York, NY 10022, USA

www.argosybooks.com

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NYC's oldest indie bookstore
Six-floor literary archive
Antiquarian & out-of-print
Vintage maps & prints
Argosy Book Store
Midtown
New York

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