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Miami bookstores?
After my recent trip to Miami, I figured out why no one responded to my
query of a couple of weeks ago: quite simply, the pickings there seem rather slim. I had to wait till Sunday really to explore. Two of the places I wanted to check out were closed, but I did go to the 2 branches of The Kendall Bookshelf. I found them mediocre. Their pricing system is interesting: they mark--in pencil or more likely with a sticker--the original list price. Then they charge half of that. (Apparently, there is a further discount if you are using trade credit--but I didn't get into that.) I generally measure a store by its religion section--simply because I know those books best. One of the branches had an okay, if overpriced (despite the system mentioned above) section. The other had half-a-shelf. (Boo, hiss.) They seemed a decent place to find some good reading copies--I think you'd have to look rather long and hard for anything collectible (or resaleable) though. I picked up an Oxford paperback of Henry James' *Washington Square* for the plane. I did make one find: a signed copy of Carol Damian's *The Virgin of the Andes: Art and Ritual in Colonial Cuzco* (Miami Beach: Grassfield Press, 1995). A friend of mine, a specialist in Andean/Incan studies, recently gave a beautiful painted reproduction of a Cuzco Virgin--so the Damian book was a welcome reference--and at half list price. William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com |
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