Again, I've been bumped out. The entire stock is up for sale in order to repay the landlord and has been broken down into 100 or so lots. If you were interested in purchasing a single souvenir or some such, this isn't the platform to do it. One lot may encompass 10,000 volumes, or one half of an entire floor. The $1000 for "browser's insurance" will be refunded if you don't purchase anything, but it still isn't a sum large enough to guarantee any one lot (maybe it will get you the bathroom). So unless anyone wants to spot me a fat mille, I'll be stuck fogging up the display windows.
*Bullocks! This auction skidded right into the dump. The NY Times reports, "Wall-to-Wall Books, and All of Them for the Landlord":
The auction started an hour late. The inventory was divided into more than 100 lots. The first offering was for the inventory as a whole. One bid was made. The landlord’s lawyer, John Faust, stood up and placed a bid of $400,000 on all the items being auctioned. Bidding then began on individual lots. But the individual winning bids would not count unless their total surpassed the $400,000.
As the bids came in — $300 here, $25 there — enthusiasm waned, and many prospective buyers left the room, knowing what would happen.
The landlord’s bid prevailed. Still, Mr. Brown said he hoped that somehow there would be another incarnation of the Gotham.
Some who attended the auction lamented the fact that a benefactor had not appeared.
“The poets!” said Mr. Hearn, the longtime patron. “Did any of them come out and support him?”
Gretchen Adkins, a friend of Mr. Hearn’s, responded, “A lot of them are dead.”
Now we just have to track down that landlord. What does he plan to do with all that fantastic stuff? I smell another auction once the inventory is fully itemized.
Fare thee well, Gotham.
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Posted by: LeOgAhEr | June 01, 2007 at 06:28 PM