This store wasn’t actually located in a cellar. I think they just liked the pun. It operated at street level, across from the fashionable Four Seasons Hotel in Yorkville (as the bookmark here proudly points out). Perhaps because of its convenient location it was apparently known as the book store to the stars because people like Elizabeth Taylor, Mick Jagger, and Madonna were seen shopping there. I believe it closed its doors in 1997.
Book: The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (ed. Alex Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan
Alex Good 
They stayed open so late!
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Back in the day bookstores were fashionable places to meet in the big city!
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For preservations sake, do you think you’ll end up laminating the paper bookmarks you have? Or are they already laminated?
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I never thought of that. For some of these it might make sense, as they aren’t making any more of these bookmarks from bookstores that closed thirty years ago. But I’ll probably just keep them as is. I take good care of them.
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Taylor, Jagger, Madonna. Please. My first bookstore was in Dallas, and when I worked there I sold a book to the guy who played Cosby’s dad on The Cosby Show.
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Damn. And that was probably before you could have taken a selfie to immortalize the occasion.
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Back then I’d’ve had to have been a Japanese tourist to be prepared for such a momentous occasion.
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