Showing posts with label Chelsea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chelsea. Show all posts

Skyline Books







While their massive neighbor has shuttered its windows, Skyline continues toward the 20 year mark, "offering the book-buying public everything from inexpensive, second-hand reading copies of their favorite classics to high-end, rare, signed, and out-of-print titles."
If you're looking an atmosphere and inventory strong on Beat lit., this is your place.
Plus: Looking for some hard-to-find jazz vinyl to go with your Kerouac first edition? Academy Records & CDs is across the street, where you can chat with grade A music nerds about the strengths and weaknesses of various 50's sound engineers.

192 Books





192 BOOKS in Chelsea is a general-interest new-books bookstore featuring key works of literature and history, art and criticism, the social and natural sciences, travel and children's books, and more. Plus: you can lounge in lovely vintage Prouvé furniture.