rare books

Rare and antique books in the hills

It was someone Kim knew who alerted us to the presence of Dragon Books up in the shopping center on Beverly Glen, just below Mulholland.   Madison McGarry is 14 and wrote the following:

Dragon Books is one of the small business stores that you never want to close down. It looks like the small library room found in old victorian mansions or the house of an ivy-league college professor, this is mainly because they only sell first edition copies. We (my stepmom and I) found the owner of the store, Jay Penske, talking with his some other people about a screenplay or something relative on the big sofas in the store. When we told  him that I was planning on writing a review on the store he said that he was glad and gave us a sheet of paper. On the paper it showed which kind of books are under what letter (which I didn’t notice until i saw the list), I’ve never seen a system like that anywhere else which makes it pretty cool. Once he gave me the paper, Jay went back to his conversation with the people on the sofa (makes me glad that he gets to have a life while working in a store, you barely see that in big company stores like Borders). I had no exact book I was looking for so my head went wild at the many kinds of books and covers. I bought three books and ordered some others in advanced when I left the place I wished I worked there. If Dragon Books closes down the same way as Dutton’s I don’t know  what would happened. There should be no reason for this store to close down, the books are priced just like anywhere else.

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