Henry’s big summer catalogue is out!
It lists over five hundred books, published between 1764 and 2012. It contains some pretty amazing stuff, and there is more to come in future catalogues.
I’m ready to repay your faith in Henry Bemis Books. For every order received by June 30, 2015, I’ll give you buyer a credit of $72 a year until one of us dies: that’s the average annual book expenditure of Charlotte-area households (if that means a free book, I will ask you to be a good sport and cover the shipping; otherwise, the shipping is free).
Longevity runs in my family; according to the ubble.co.uk website, I have a 96.3% expectation of surviving the next three years, and am 5 years younger than my calendar age. So there’s a $216 return, minimum. And as time goes on and Henry prospers, I’ll adjust that credit upward. You’ll also be listed, if you wish, as a Founding Supporter of Henry Bemis Books. As they used to say on Japan’s Iron Chef, you’ll earn “the people’s ovation and fame forever.”
Any order placed from this catalogue for the rest of this year- take 25% off. If you are a) an alumnus of St. Andrews Presbyterian College (now St. Andrews University), or the University of Oxford, or a member of Charlotte’s Caldwell Presbyterian Church, take another 10%. Half the the net proceeds will be donated to those institutions (in Oxford’s case, to Mansfield College).
If you are another used, rare and/or collectible bookseller, let’s talk about discounts for you, too.
The first order over $250 will get a unique token of Henry’s gratitude: a first edition, hardcover copy of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, The Great Gatsby. Our Gatsby lacks the dust jacket (if it had that, I’d be on a beach in Honduras already), and has a couple of condition issues: some loose pages and a cellophane tape repair to the title page. These dings take it out of the usual first edition $5,000-range auction value. But only 23,000 copies made up the first edition; when Fitzgerald died in 1940, there were unsold copies in the Scribner warehouses. 90 years on, only a tiny number survive, in any condition.
Think of the bragging rights! The pride of place on your shelves! And if no one is allowed to touch it, no one will know about the tape.
Without books, the 17th century Danish physician, Thomas Bartholin, wrote, “God is silent, justice dormant, science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.”
Will you help me spread the light? We can make a mighty bonfire!
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Lindsay Thompson
For Henry Bemis Books
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