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used books
Bookshops
The Strand Dollar Carts at Closing
An hour spent watching the closing-time ritual at the dollar carts outside the Strand Bookstore at Broadway and East 12th in Manhattan, where the day's final markdowns and the wheeling-in of the carts constitute an unsentimental piece of New York bookselling theatre.
Bookshops
Powell's City of Books, After Eleven
A late shift in the Burnside Street flagship of Powell's, the Portland used-and-new bookshop that occupies a full city block, when the foot traffic has thinned and the booksellers begin the long re-shelving of the day's churn.