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ON AUGUST 10 & 11 LARRY MCMURTRY TO AUCTION 300,000 BOOKS AS PART OF “THE LAST BOOK SALE”

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Archer City, TX – August 8, 2012 – Academy Award winning screenwriter and acclaimed author Larry McMurtry has announced the sale of over 300,000 books as part of an auction entitled “The Last Book Sale,” taking place on August 10 and 11, 2012.  Addison & Sarova Auctioneers will oversee the event, which will be held at McMurtry’s BOOKED UP, INC. store in Archer City, TX.  The collection is one of the largest in America and is housed in three of the four buildings comprising Booked Up. McMurtry is not closing his bookstore and will continue to sell books after the auction out of the main Booked Up building, which contains over 165,000 titles.

McMurtry’s entire store encompasses over 450,000 books, with a large selection of antiquarian titles as well as fine quality general stock.  The auction will include all books currently housed in buildings two through four as part of a shelf sale, as well as 100 books personally chosen by McMurtry to be sold as individual lots.  He says that while they may not be the most expensive books, they are titles he finds interesting. The plan is for each shelf to contain several valuable books as well as good general stock.  There will be a weeklong preview beginning August 3 through 9.  McMurtry will be on hand for the event.

The auction is a “can’t miss” for those interested in fine quality general books as well as collectors of rare books and manuscripts.  McMurtry has been buying and selling books for the past forty years, including the purchases of hundreds of private collections as well as complete inventory from over 25 stores.  He hopes to inspire the next generation of book lovers to start their own stores and said, “Young dealers have a chance to acquire some good stock.”

The store is just one building away from where “The Last Picture Show” was filmed, and the event should bring a large audience of book lovers and the literary world to Archer City. His personal collection of 28,000 books acquired over the past 55 years, specializing in general humanities and reference titles, currently resides at his home in Archer City.

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