Book Collector

Love Books, Love Collecting Books, You'll Love Walking Through New York

Visit New York's bookstores or I will find the book you are looking for and send it to you. I stand for hours behind a line to get autographed copies of Anne Rice's vampire chronicles, Milan Kundera's first edition of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and of course, Donald Trump's How To Get Rich.

Remember to visit Clovis Press Bookstore, 229 Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and those stores along the Upper Westside of Manhattan.

During the 2003 Blackouts, I was stuck in a Manhattan office waiting for a power surge. Owners were afraid of an electric blast wiping out the company's computers, but my brother called laughing to say, Clovis Press had a sign in the window, "No AC? No TV? What you are gonna do? READ!"

Exactly.

New Yorkers love to read. Authors meet fans at bookstores everyday. I add the list of authors to my calendar on the first of every month. Enjoy the experience, I once stood next to a collector, who had autographed first editions of everything John Steinbeck wrote.

Make a great offer and I might give up my autographed editions of Anne Rice's books, The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned, along with pictures of Bennett Peak and the Witching Hour house in New Orleans. Throw in an extra $1000 and I will hand over my rare Turkish edition of The Vampire Lestat.

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