The sale attracted booksellers and collectors from all over the nation and sold 250,000 books. Hoping to make his inventory more manageable for his heirs, he held a two-day auction. Finally, in 2012, after selling books there for over twenty years, McMurtry resolved to downsize. Yet while his stores became an attraction, other vendors failed to join his endeavor. His hope was that Archer City would become a hub of specialized booksellers. Visit the newly born book town of Archer City, Texas, and help the endless migration of good books continue." McMurtry placed advertisements in antiquarian publications proclaiming, "Miraculous birth!. He sought to create a new book town - opening four stores with 450,000 books. In 1988, he relocated these stores to his sleepy hometown, Archer City.
He eventually expanded, opening stores in Houston, Dallas, and Tucson. In 1971, McMurtry opened his first bookstore, Booked Up, in Washington D.C. The bookshops are a form of ranching instead of herding cattle, I herd books. He says, "The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. He has acquired quite a few - his own personal collection contains over thirty thousand volumes and his bookstore holds another 200,000. A bookseller for over fifty years, McMurtry began writing as a way to fund his book purchases. To learn more about the cookbooks in the Texas Collection or if you would like to visit, go to /lib/texas.Although renowned as a novelist and screenwriter, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry is above all a passionate book collector. When asked how many other fervent cookbook collectors she knew of, she said there weren’t many. It will take a few years, but they want to list all the Texas cookbooks through 1986 and where you can find copies of each. This time, she’ll be in partnership with Southern Methodist University’s DeGolyer Library and her friends at the Texas Collection. White is on the verge of revisiting her landmark statewide bibliography of Texas cookbooks that she first completed in 2005. She particularly loves the home demonstration cookbooks from the 1930s and ’40s, from instructors who pre-dated extension agents, who served a similar purpose. She’d like to track down early cookbooks in languages other than English she has found a German book or two. Her focus now is pre-World War II books, especially 19th century books, which can fetch hundreds of dollars in online auctions. White has another 1,000 books meticulously organized, but “I am purchasing, selectively,” White says. On a recent tour of the 4,000-book cookbook collection - a quarter of which came from White - librarian Amie Oliver, curator of print materials for the Texas Collection, pointed to the many spiral-bound community cookbooks, most of which are categorized by place. They also encourage people to use their volumes for research, which White hopes will inspire future academic work on the subject.
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