THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Well, no.
At least not another book-
store of the kind you're
accustomed to.
No. We believe a book-
store should be as pleasant
a place as your own den
as accommodating as your
public library. We don't call
Dickens' Den "The Compleat
Bookstore" idly.
A place to sit and read
So, because
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we've always
e
found
standing at
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a row of
shelves a
rather • iscouraging way of
looking into books, we've
furnished Dickens' Den with
a big round table. And we've
surrounded it with big com-
fortable chairs. And if you
don't know what to do with
theni after you've happened
on a book that interests you,
we'll be terribly disappointed
in you.
We're told this will only
encourage people to, spend
more. time ieading, less time
buying. It's possible.
A place to sit and listen
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Do you remember fitting on
the floor of a public library
listening to the magic words
of folk tales and poetry?
We do !
"Fee, fie, foh, fum ! ..."
"Open, Sesame! ..."
"Up the airy mountain/
Down the rushy glen ..."
."Under the spreading chest-
nut tree/The village smithy
stands ..."
It
._ and in the - morning,
when the people of Troy
looked down from their walls,
they saw a great wooden
horse on the beach ..."
We've asked a master story
teller to re-create that magic
for your children. The time,
the day, the manner of re-
creation, we leave for another
message.
A place of classics
Some books reach out from
the spirit of one man and
make music in the souls of
all other men. They will live
forever. And men have ex-
pressed their love for such
books by lavishing upon them
their own great skills. Leather
bindings ...glorious graphics
...magnificent type ... rich,
creamy paper. We have a
special corner devoted to this
love. You're •welcome to hold
them, to read them, even — if
you promise to cherish them
as we do — to buy them.
And if you should want
one not in our collection — a
fine binding, a first edition,
a rare out-of-print volume —
we'll seek it out for you.
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A place of gifts
Secretaries, if we
may be pre-
sumptuous,
should be left
to their secretarying — should
not be required to scurry
about worriedly selecting gifts
for one's business associates!
Entrust that task to Dickens'
Den. Supply '-us with a list of
names, interests, approximate
age (In the case of women
you're permitted to ,deduct
no less than five, no more
than twenty years. Permitted?
Required!) date of presen- -
tation, and its occasion and
we'll select, wrap, even deliver
an appropriate book with an
appropriate card.
And we'll cio the same for
you even if you want it done
only once.
We still
haven't
mentioned our
shelves of ref-
erence books
you're
welcome
to consult ... the coffee pot
you're welcome to pour ...
the knowledgeable staff who
would just as soon talk books
with you as sell them ...
Another bookstore? No.
Dickens' Den —The Compleat
Bookstore.
The Compleai Bookstore
EVERGREEN PLAZA .12 MILE AND EVERGREEN
SOUTHFIELD. MICHIGAN 48076 --
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557-8803