Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
.QUINTUPLE EDITION.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Continuation of Special Review of Leading
Business Houses of Sacramento.
w. A. a &. :. HOUGHTON,
booksellers and Stationers, SIS street,
between sixth and seventh.

w. A. Il &. :. HOUGHTON,
booksellers and Stationers, SIS street,
between sixth and seventh.
just at the beginning of the year 1880
the Houghtons had opened their new and
beautiful store-rooms at 6l5 J street. Since
then those rooms have been the constant
subject Of public admiration. They hold
the largest stock of books IN all the interior
of California. and the heaviest and rarest
lot of fancy goods in the statloners line
The local business of the firm Is great and
sweeping. but their interior trade is so
rapid IN growth and SO extensive as to re-
fleet IN the strongest light the advantages
of the Sacramento market. In all school
books, IN all standard publications, IN all
new issues OF works, ali new novels, all re-
cent books by the great publishing firms OF
America and England IN art publ
cations, in children's books, in desk sup
plies. aud all new and useful articles
peculiar 20 stationers stock, the Houghtons
keep the largest, COMPLETE and richest
stock outside OF Sen Francisco. and es-
pecially laid IN for the trade. Whole
sailing they made a speciality from the
start, and they have found the location OF
this city admirably adapted for it. The
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European manufacturers and publishers
and with the business advantages the city
offers. and the connections which they have
established for themselves, both IN the
East and abroad, they find no trouble in
competing with any house on the Pacific
slope. Above their store. room they have
a sample room, the only one in the inte-
rior set apart completely from the general
store, and the eompietest by the way of
of any. Here the interior buyer by lot is
able to examine a sample of every staple
article, from a school book, letter clip,
paper file, pass book or desk weight 70 a
scrap book album, photograph cabinet
album, lines Of stationery, etc. lie is not
confused by mass OF goods he can
choose readily and in quiet, and the sales
man can save the time and patience to his
customer 1t is an admirable arrange
ment. In gold pens, church goods,
rich hound standard holiday and gift books,
in the library editions, cheap editions
iull and half bound editions, in fact, IN
all the styles known to publishers. They
keep the staple books and the late books
of the day, from fiction to philosophy,
from poetry and art to history, travel and
biography. Their stock of staple and
fancy stationery Is a marvel Of beauty,
the designs in this line seeming TO be end
less. In the matter of supplying school
libraries the Houghtons take especial
pride; in furnishing to order for private
and legal libraries they announce their
ability TO successfully compete with any
IN short notice to do 50 IN all lines known
to the business. The establishment OF the
Hough5ons Is a genteel one, the visitor Is
always assured of polite consideration,
whether small or a large buyer; it is a
literary center-'a book store in the
word