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Bookseller cc By CHRIS DEESE are arranged Gamecock Staff Writer "Somebody something, ] Fred Mays likes books and he exactly where likes people. But what he likes best can tell 'em i is bringing the two together. He said his! Mays is manager and controlling high-pressure owner of The Bookhouse, a second-floor i bookstore on Saluda Avenue that chairs invite t contains more than paperback himself con best-sellers and the latest how-to- chuckled as 1 do-everything books. reason for the The Bookhouse is Mays' pride "Somebody 1 1 it T 1 1 ? ... anujuy. i love my ooors, mey re and look at tl like members of my family, like "and then the children to me," he said. and then read May's store has all kinds of thing you kn< books on all kinds of subjects. against somet still reading." BECAUSE OF the lack of help and his theory that many people MAYS LIKE enjoy looking, not all of the books come aroum vhbsehb HnSBInffiOSRil WKBmBSSm STU! Where Yg Net Mow BJ I Cc$eS0| J I RBDEUVI Suh.-Thurs ' 629 Main Street >ncernedwi1 asks me for [ might not know fcl litis," he said, "but I tfhat shelf it's on." p store is not set up for '^? ' ^ In one the ooms, a couch and !n^5rowse^(^nak<} |?f lfortable. Mays le demonstrated his furniture placement. || will get down a book Hl^^B^^RHgHKI le jacket," he said, inside duster a ^^HDB^H J he's backed up hing and sits down, > IS browsers. "1 don't d and look over people's shoulders and around and keep askl BH help you?'" he said. "I yW\ ||| look all they want." One small room coi ' editions. Some of ther and all of them hai i "Every book has a h Ksaiu. Hg told a story of Dr. K. Sprague of the USC department, who found edition room a copy of i storybook her mother 1 in 1934 and dedicated to said she was delighte find, which she bought MAYS SAID most ( i books cost about a d< P British legal autho Winifred E. Cavenaugh on the involvement c citizen in the adminii criminal inoHno tAninht jmwmvv wniftui > HFY'S SIRr >U_ Come First v Stuff Avufloble 1UEU Butter ERY ON CAMPUS j 6-midnight 771 KjplyT^^ 1011 -A,[ follow 'em new paperbacks go for abc ng, 'May I and new hardback books just let 'em the list price which he usually about $3 or $4. itains first "I keep my prices dow a are rare, people interested in re value. again," he said. "Televi istory," he taken too many people aw reading books." rvusumuna He also otters a discount philosophy his Bookhouse Club and in the first trade-ins on some books, es a children's paperbacks. trad written Mays said he'd like to ha her. Mays help so he could catalc d with her books, adding that "if 1 for $1. computerized bookston would like that. But a ti )f his used lover likes the old sys )llar, while browsing. You have to se gal authority i rity Prof, the auditorium of Currell will speak if the lay Hie presentation is ope stration of public and admission is fi at 8 p.m. in sponsored by the Columbia | Report for Th Good exp c Leatli 1 of C Custo ! Hats. j 4,000 style j Come on d Oct. 25-20 The Le 4098 ||1 not money PBBflSBgteSB $ S ittphen McCormack-THE* GAMECOCK mt $2.00, jwhat you're looking for, like a for half [treasure hunt. said is "mudekn STORES are cold, n to get and I like the warm cozy type with reading a relaxed atmosphere. That's sion has what I've tried to do here." 'ay from t He said one item not found in the modern bookstores is a jukebox through made in 1942. Its box is in perfect accepts condition and with some original ipecially old records including a few early u.. n: ?o 1? Hiu? uy nuig v^rusuy, uie JUKeoox is ve more for sale for $1,000, he said, gue his "I love my work, and I do a [ had a service. I'm not after the dollar, e some although I do need to make a ue book profit," Mays said. "If I treat >tem of them (customers) right, they'll arch for come back." o speak College, of Women Voters, the College of Criminal Justice, the USC Uw n to the School and the departments of ee. It is sociology and government and i League international studies. fers wanted e Gamecock erience for students J mm mu) kAf* .CltAAlr Cherokee, N.C. tn Leather Belts, etc. m of belt buckles. lown to Decker Mall ; uii ivi v.nuv.r\ uui ather Shack display.