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Avenue Victor Hugo is selling their stock and closing their store. And theoretically reopening somewhere sometime, but this does not bode well. And no AVH run over Christmas vacation...

On the other hand, if you're in Boston now, they're having a half-price sale. Have been for a month, so I don't know what's left.

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Never fear, fellow reader. They're reopening down the block. See below:

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Press release:

A small miracle on Newbury Street unexpectedly mixes books and paint.

Newbury Street's oldest retail business, Johnson's Paint Company,
which opened in 1938, has agreed to rent space in their building at
353 Newbury Street to the Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop. The bookshop,
which flourished with the growth of the street for 27 years, had
recently announced its departure from nearby 339 Newbury Street,
after continued increases in rent and taxes in a worsening economic
climate.

[...] The new location for the bookshop will primarily be in less
expensive second floor space, but will include a street level
entrance. Johnson's Artist Materials, well known to Boston's art
community, is reducing the space it currently occupies in the building
in order to make room available.

[...] the new store will be about one third smaller than before, but
will continue to carry the same mix of general subjects and
fiction. The old store, currently in the midst of a half price sale to
reduce stock, will close on Saturday, December 28th. Shelves and
remaining stock will be moved the short distance up the sidewalk to
the new location during January with the intention of reopening in
February.

The store cat is said to be satisfied with the short move.

For more information contact Vincent McCaffrey, Avenue Victor Hugo
Bookshop, 339 Newbury Street, Boston. Tel: 617 266 7746.

internet: avenuevictorhugobooks.com
email: books@avenuevictorhugobooks.com.

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Okay, that's not too much of a hiatus. Crossing fingers...