He said he has frequent visits from Chapel Hill professors attending seminars at Northwestern University. This shop is unique because the owner has collected artifacts illustrating each department. His World War II books are surrounding by military items. The centerpiece of his section on printing and journalism is a printing press of the kind Benjamin Franklin might have used. The books an independent carries reflect the owner's personality and interests.
Every shop is unique.
I have bought dozens of books of journalism from a used shop in Greensboro. I have bought a number of books on the South and South Carolina from a shop in Columbia. Because of humidity, used books in the South are dustier and mustier than those in the north and, for this reason, a used book now has to be necessary or very clean for me to buy it. Most books I now obtain are new, sought out from among specialized catalogues. In the Fifties, my favorite bookstore was Noah's Ark in Abbeville, S.C., a monstrous, dark, dusty, dank structure housing millions of books, many collected on the owner's trips to England.