Now that doesn't mean he won't ever expand. It just means he has no plans at this moment, he explained. Asked how many books the stores have to offer, he said he has no idea. Another moment passed as the heat hung in the air. No matter the exact number.
Visitors come from as far away as England and Australia.
I asked about the little room full of McMurtry books that I had entered earlier while he was unpacking boxes. He explained that that particular room is a storage room, and customers are not encouraged to enter it. But the Texas State Travel Guide lists the bookstore as offering the largest collection of antiquarian books in the country. We're just a good general used bookstore. A good general used bookstore with a resident Pulitzer Prize-winning author.