Moe’s Books: serving Berkeley since 1959. Photo: Nacio Jan Brown This article is brought to you by the Bay Area Book Festival. Fill in the blank: B–k. Maybe you read “Book.” Or possibly your mind extrapolated a bit and thought “Berkeley.” Berkeley means books. There have been terrible losses: Cody’s (can it actually be eight years?), Shakespeare […]
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Shotgun Players to create studio at old Serendipity Books
Shotgun Players is transforming the old Serendipity Books store on University Avenue into a rehearsal space. Photo: Google Images Shotgun Players is transforming the old Serendipity Books store on University Avenue into a rehearsal space. Photo: Google Images Berkeley’s Shotgun Players has purchased the building on University Avenue that once housed Serendipity Books and will turn it into […]
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Era ends: Liquidation sale at Berkeley’s Serendipity Books
Three rooms of these bookcases were entirely empty when Eureka Books took over Serendipity Books. By moving books from high shelves down, and from the bags and boxes on the floor, the bookshelves are completely full again. Photo: Scott Brown When Peter Howard, the owner of Serendipity Books, died in March 2011, he left behind […]
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Rare works from Serendipity Books to be auctioned
Interior of Berkeley’s Serendipity Books, which had an estimated one million books. Photos: Ken Sanders Interior of Berkeley’s Serendipity Books, which had an estimated one million books. Photos: Ken Sanders The collection the late Peter Howard amassed for Serendipity Books was so vast that it will take Bonhams six different auctions to sell it off. […]
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Peter Howard, owner of Serendipity Books, dies
Peter Howard’s chair at Serendipity Books. Photo: Ken Sanders, Ken Sanders Rare Books Peter Howard’s chair at Serendipity Books. Photo: Ken Sanders, Ken Sanders Rare Books Peter Howard, the eccentric and brilliant owner of Serendipity Books, and a towering figure in the world of rare books, died at home on March 31. A Giants season […]
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Future uncertain for Berkeley’s Serendipity Books
Peter B. Howard, the owner of Serendipity Books, has been collecting antique tomes for 47 years and the results of his diligence can be seen in the stacks and stacks of books at his store on University Avenue. A world-renowned book collector who has rescued a number of valuable archives from the Berkeley city dump […]