“£200 AND UP”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 5

“£2OO AND UP”

NEW STORE FOR NEW YORK XKW YORK, Fob. lid. The first “£21)0 and up” store has made its debut in Now York. It is a bookshop, run by Miss Barbara Barnes, a society girl, who has decided that what New York needed was a shop to cater to the tastes of the wealthy and cultured and no one else. Her prices begin at £2OO. This is the rock-bottom, the absolute minimum. If you are prepared to pay only £IBO for a first edition you will have to go elsewhere. She is certain she will make a success of the place. ”1 feel that the period of economic stringency is over, any anyway, the crash did not really affect the people who want to collect the kind of book's we sell,” she said. A reporter found the debutante earnestly at work with her mentor and adviser, .Mr. hi. \V. Kit-hols, the British editor of “The Bookseller and Collector.” Mr. Nichols did most of the talking. ‘‘There are about 0000 collectors in America to whom wo shall appeal,” he said. ‘‘But there are -!0,000 millionaires in America,” I protested. “Not, all are collectors,” said Mr. Nichols. “Henry Ford, for example, collects Americana. Bill 1 doubt that yon would sell him a book for more than £10.” At present, Miss Barnes’ books ■ range up to £7OOO in price.