![]() ![]() But I'll accept it for my granddaughter.' ''įor years, her order had been part of Shorey's ``customer wants'' list, a vast file of 3-by-5 cards where all requests go whenever a standard book search - phone calls and advertising in antiquarian-book journals - proves fruitless after three or four months. Homer Henderson, who has worked at Shorey's since 1974, recalls the response of one customer who was told that her long-sought book had finally arrived: `` `Well,' she said, `I ordered it for my daughter. Such stories are legion, for Shorey's has been pulling off similar feats for a full century: The family-run institution is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, easily making it the oldest bookstore in Seattle and one of the oldest in the nation. She is not alone in her astonishment and delight. ``I just looked at this notice, showed it to my husband and we each broke out laughing,'' wrote Turner. On June 12, 1990, Shorey's informed her they finally had located the book. Roberts, ``The Grandeur and Misery of Man,'' which was published in 1955 by Oxford University Press. Shorey's apparently never gives up.''Īt Shorey's Bookstore on May 21, 1971, Turner ordered an out-of-print book by David E. ![]() ``I was not just pleased to have the book found, but stunned by the fact that it took nineteen years to find it. ``How is this for doggedness?'' an amazed North Seattle woman, Alma Turner, recently wrote The Times. ![]()
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