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Creasy Spines

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Secondhand bookshop in New York, since 1990

Mercer Street Books & Records

Literary fictionPhilosophyArt & photographyRecords
A small Greenwich Village used bookshop open since 1990, a reliable stop for literary fiction, philosophy, art and French-language books near NYU, with crates of records alongside the shelves.
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