Industry | Books |
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Founder | John K. King |
Headquarters | 901 West Lafayette, Detroit, Michigan , U.S. |
Number of locations | 2 |
Area served | Detroit metropolitan area |
Key people | John K. King |
Website | www.kingbooksdetroit.com |
John K. King Used & Rare Books is an independent bookseller in Michigan.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
The store has an estimated 1 million books in stock, with a large collection of rare and used titles.[9] In a 2011 article from the online magazine Salon, the store was described as "one of the largest and strangest collections in North America".[6]
The store has four above-ground floors open to customers. An adjacent building has a collection of rarer and notable items available for viewing by appointment only. The rare book holdings are the only cataloged part of the inventory and can be viewed and ordered by visiting rarebooklink.com.
... John K. King Books in Detroit, one of the nation's biggest and best-known used, rare and out-of-print book dealers.
For every hour I've spent at King's, I've heard the same three-word phrase repeated to customers a dozen times: We're not computerized.
... you'll find John K. King Used and Rare Books, a palace of pleasure if you love old books(subscription required)
Best Indie Bookstore in Detroit
King's massive retail inventory is not online -- it wouldn't be cost-effective, he says -- but its rare books are at rarebooklink.com.[dead link]
Converted from an abandoned 1940s glove factory, John King is a five-story wooden maze stuffed stairwells-to-ceilings with used and rare books — one of the largest and strangest collections in North America.
A Detroit institution[dead link](subscription required)
King's world includes as many as 1 million books housed in a converted glove factory, filling four stories in an industrial area near downtown.(subscription required)