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“iconic book shop and film location”
Pageant Book Shop was founded in 1946 by Sidney B. Solomon and Henry "Chip" Chafetz as a used and rare book shop in New York City. Pageant had its home in several locations along Fourth Avenue, known as “Book Row of America”, for 35 years before moving around the corner to East 9th Street. During that time, Mr. Solomon and Mr. Chafetz branched out into several additional areas which included selling prints and maps, reprinting scholarly and important works such as Henry Roth’s “Call It Sleep” and publishing the award winning Pageant Facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible. The shop and its books have appeared in numerous movies filmed in New York City including Neil Simon’s "Chapter Two" with James Caan and Marsha Mason and Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters" where Michael Caine and Barbara Hershey went browsing for a copy of e.e. cumming's poems. After the deaths of Mr. Chafetz and Mr. Solomon, Pageant continued under the ownership of Sid’s daughter Shirley Solomon. The gentrification of Fourth Avenue in the 1990’s forced nearly all of the remaining bookshops to re-locate or close. At that time, the shop moved to West Houston Street and in the summer of 1999, Pageant Books and Prints Shop closed its physical shop and went virtual. Shirley has now been joined by her sister, Rebecca Solomon who was also raised “in the business”.
Overall, a really cool store where I was able to find a print of a map of NYC for $13 and change after tax. I docked one star because the owner wasn't exactly the nicest to me for taking photos,... Read more
Nasty nasty nasty nasty attitude from the lady (presumably the store owner). I can't remember the last time I was treated this way, absolutely abhorrent. couldn't bear to give them my business... Read more
I really like the Pageant Print Shop! It's a small store located off of 4th, and they usually have a $1 - $5 boxes of 'prints' (more like pages from old/retro/vintage books in its individual... Read more
Pageant Print Shop
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