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Newsletter #103 September — November, 2013
As many of our older customers retire, they often move from a large old house with lots of space to store books to a smaller place with a lot less room for books, resulting in many bags or boxes of books being brought to the Uncles. This has been going on for many years, but we recently had the largest batch we’ve ever seen at Uncle Hugo’s. A customer who was a regular for decades decided, back when cover prices were going from $.75 up to $.95, that he wanted to collect all the science fiction and fantasy paperbacks every published. He picked up every new paperback from our new release shelf for a couple of decades, plus looking for used copies of older books. About the time the cover prices started hitting $3.95, he started being more selective in his buying. After Scott Imes died in 2001, the customer stopped coming in and stopped collecting. Around the middle of July he stopped in, told me that he was 72 and had decided it was time to get rid of his collection. Over the next few weeks I bought almost 6000 used science fiction, fantasy, and horror paperbacks from him, along with a few hardcovers and trade paperbacks. There were a lot of rare books in there that I remember selling to him back in the 1970s, but there were a few that I don’t remember ever having seen before. Several hundred of the books have already been snatched up by other customers, but we still have huge amounts of hard-to-find paperbacks clogging our aisles. Please stop by and buy some. |
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