McMurtry Sets Auction of 300,000 Books:
Author Larry McMurtry has been gathering books around him for more than five decades. Along the way, he has filled his four-building bookshop with 450,000 titles and turned his hometown of Archer City, Texas, into a destination “book town.” Now, at age 76, he’s finally letting some of his collection go. “I think it’s time they enter back into the great river of books,” he said.
On Aug. 10, the novelist and screenwriter will auction off more than 300,000 books at a two-day event he’s calling “The Last Book Sale.” (Mr. McMurtry’s novel “The Last Picture Show” was made into a movie of the same name.) The books will be auctioned off from the shelves of his bookstore, Booked Up, in groups of about 200, each containing several valuable books.
300,000 books can count as one item on my list for Christmas, can’t it?
Also, just to reiterate, McMurtry is has a book store, which explains how he has more books than even a professor (and, perhaps, one fewer shirt). So 40,000 books is the next level for me to achieve (Professor), with the level beyond that (100,000 – Bookseller) still in range for the rest of my life.
