Came back from lunch to find a rotund older fellow in a NASA ballcap standing at the register with a stack of big Mapplethorpe photo books. Susie indicated he wanted to sell them, so I did my thing and bought the two we didn't already have. He dithered a bit but accepted the offer.
After he left Susie returned from the stacks an informed me
"That guy said he would only sell his books to a man."
"What?"
"Yeah, he didn't want me to look at them, said he'd only sell them to a man."
Every day in the book biz something you've never seen before will wash up on your doorstep.
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