• Jumel Terrace Books

    Revolutionary & Colonial Washington Heights, Harlem, Africa, West Indies, Art, Myth, History & Literature: Slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Theology, Military, Labor, Civil Rights, Negritude, Black Power.

"An Oasis for the Unrestrained Pursuit of Knowledge"
*************And a "Nugget" in the Rubbish*************

Uptown's only bookshop specializing in local history, African & American. The shop on 160th Street, open by appointment or serendipity, faces the Morris-Jumel Mansion, the headquarters of George Washington during 1776’s Battle of Harlem Heights, & our stock addresses its significance in 18th & 20th century Revolutionary American history.

As Sugar Hill, the neighborhood has retained its reputation as the intellectual & artistic home of Black America. Jumel Terrace Books follows in the tradition of bookstores serving the community since George Young’s Book Exchange opened in 1920. Before Black Studies entered college curriculums in 1968, shops like Lewis Micheaux’s House of Common Sense & Home of Proper Propaganda & Richard B Moore’s Frederick Douglass Book Center were important sources of education, aspiration & inspiration. As did our predecessors, we buy & sell very good books on our subjects.

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Revolutionary Pamphlets from Private Library of Kurt Thometz & Jumel Terrace Books with BlackMass at Canal Projects.

Credits for the collection are due to the late New York City booksellers, William French of University Place Books, of Greenwich Village, and Una Mulzac’s Liberation Books and Earl Hadley’s Afro-American Bookstore, Harlem. In their memory and with my gratitude to BlackMass for the opportunity to share.

Death of a Blue Eyed Soul Brother +

Tough novels by B.B. Johnson. The set for $180.

Reopening by appointment only.

After a long spell as a rental apartment, Jumel Terrace Books is back as a bookshop. Contact Kurt Thometz at (212) 928-9525 or kurt@kurtthometz.com to set up a time.