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Luxury UWS Home For Sale — Complete With 2,500 Books

By DNAinfo Staff on January 16, 2011 2:57pm  | Updated on January 17, 2011 5:13am

By Gabriela Resto-Montero

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

UPPER WEST SIDE — A nine-room luxury duplex at the legendary Hotel Des Artistes at 1 West 67th Street is on the market with a bibliophile's dream — a 2,500 volume library.

The library — housed in two-storey section of the apartment which is bigger than most Manhattanite's homes —features many first-edition and signed books in the collection, the Huffington Post reported.

The home is listed at $6.95 million.

Among other luxurious amenities are four bedrooms, four full bathrooms, an eat-in kitchen, a media room and a so-called "wine cave", according to the listing agents at Sotheby's International Realty.

Renowned architect George Mort Pollard designed and built the Hotel Des Artistes in 1916.