AbeBooks
Massive online marketplace for books, with over 100 million new, used, rare, and out-of-print titles listed for sale by more than 13,500 independent booksellers around the world.
ANARTIST
Upper West Side
Hours: By appointment only
Email: ges6[at]columbia[dot]edu
Local book dealer specializing in rare and out-of-print, secondary market monographs, exhibition catalogs, and artist books.
Printed Matter, Inc.
195 Tenth Avenue (@ 21 street)
Hours: Tuesday/Wednesday, 11 AM to 6 PM; Thursday to Saturday, 11 AM to 7 PM
Search: Printed Matter Catalog
Public reading room for the largest non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of artist publications, with 15,000 titles available for viewing and purchase.
PS1 Bookstore
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave, Long Island City
Hours: Thursday to Monday, 12 PM to 6 PM
Email: artbook[at]ps1[dot]org
Dynamic museum store featuring up to date contemporary art titles: monographs, exhibitions catalogs, criticism, theory, limited editions, journals, and many out-of-print titles.
Steven Leiber Basement
Online source for rare contemporary art documentation: artist’s books, artist’s ephemera, multiples, works on paper, and reference materials.
Ursus Books
699 Madison Avenue, 3rd floor
Hours: Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM; Saturday, 11 AM to 5 PM
Search: Ursus Books Catalog
Email: ursus[at]ursusbooks[dot]com
Renowned bookstore featuring an extensive, if pricey, collection of international reference books (from all periods/media), including rare catalogues raisonnés.
Urban Center Books
Architecture and design bookstore of The Municipal Art Society of New York, specializing in urbanism, New York, sustainability, practice, building types, and rare journals.
Westsider Books
2246 Broadway, between 80th and 81st Streets
Hours: Daily, 10 AM til late
Search
Narrow bookstore lined floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall with lightly used, modern fiction, reference, and history books at roughly half cover price.
