Announcements:
🏖️ We'll be closed for three weekends this summer. From July 23rd through August 7th, we'll be getting some much-needed R&R. Regular hours will resume on August 12th.
📚 Because of the large influx of stock during the past year, we will not be purchasing books again until September 23rd.
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Lee Town-Wide Yard Sale June 5th
We’re back for part 2!
Lee, New Hampshire will be holding a town-wide yard sale on Saturday, June 5th starting at 8am.
Avenue Victor Hugo Books will be offering thousands of items at these special sale prices:
- $2 Hardcovers
- $1 Trade Paperbacks
- 50¢ Mass-Market Paperbacks
- 5¢ Vintage Postcards
These sale items will be located on tables on the lawn outside our store at 1 Lee Hill Road.
Our sale will end at 6pm.
If you sign-up for our email newsletter when you check out, you’ll receive a $5 credit toward your next purchase at our store.
Below is a list and map of all 19 yard sale locations participating on May 22nd in Lee:
- 20 Lee Hill Road, Lee, NH 03861
- 18 Lee Hill Road, Lee, NH 03861
- 1 Lee Hill Rd, Lee, NH 03861
- 131 Cartland Road, Lee, NH 03861
- 132 North River Rd, Lee, NH 03861
- 7 Hobbs Road, Lee, NH 03861
- 7 Riverside Farm Dr, Lee, NH 03861
- 4 Piper Lane, Lee, NH 03861
- 60 North River Road, Lee, NH 03861
- 11 Riverside Farm Dr, Lee, NH 03861
- 33 Thurston Drive, Lee, NH 03861
- 5 Riverside Farm Rd, Lee, NH 03861
- 10 Kelsey Rd, Lee, NH 03861
- 19 Daniels Drive, Lee, NH 03861
- 84 High Rd, Lee, NH 03861
- 18 Belle Lane, Lee, NH 03861
- 54 Mast Road, Lee, NH 03861
- 23 Tuttle Roa8, Lee, NH 03861
- 261 Lee Hook Rd, Lee, NH 03861
Lee Town-Wide Yard Sale May 22nd
The town of Lee, New Hampshire will be holding a town-wide yard sale on Saturday May 22nd starting at 8am.
Avenue Victor Hugo Books will be offering thousands of at these special sale prices:
- $2 Hardcovers
- $1 Paperbacks
- 50¢ Small Paperbacks
These sale items will be located on tables on the lawn outside our store at 1 Lee Hill Road.
Our sale will begin at 9am and end at 6pm.
If you sign-up for our mailing list when you check out, you’ll receive a $5 credit toward your next purchase at our store.
Below is a map of all 26 yard sale locations participating on May 22nd in Lee.
There will be another town-wide sale on June 5th, so mark your calendars now so you can visit all the locations that couldn’t participate this time or have so much stuff they’ll be holding two sales!
Independent Bookstore Day
New Hampshire Magazine once again features our humble bookshop.
Saturday, April 24 is Independent Bookstore Day and we’ve been included along with a dozen other bookshops in New Hampshire.
We hope you can support our store and visit a few others this Saturday.
Read more at nhmagazine.com.
Lee Town-Wide Yard Sale October 3rd & 4th
The town of Lee, New Hampshire will be holding a town-wide yard sale on Saturday October 3rd and Sunday October 4th.
Avenue Victor Hugo Books will be offering thousands of books at $1 each during this sale. These sale items will be located on tables on the lawn outside our store at 1 Lee Hill Road.
We’ll also have furniture, antiques, and some children’s items on offer.
Our sale will begin at 9am and end to 6pm.
If you sign-up for our mailing list when you check out, you’ll receive a $5 credit toward your next purchase at our store.
Below is a map of all 50+ yard sale locations in Lee. The Town of Lee has also issued a route for the sale, showing you the most efficient path to visiting every sale.
A Republic of Books is Available Now!
When a narrator is not so much unreliable as imperfect, A Republic of Books might be a first refuge for scoundrels and saints. The perfect bookshop might not be, but then again . . . When failure is an option, a nation of books would have to be a republic as much as a state of mind. A Republic of Books, the newest published novel by Vincent McCaffrey, is now available at our store and through Amazon.
Read the first chapter FREE at vincentmccaffrey.com.
New Hampshire Magazine Visits Our Shop
Rick Broussard, editor of New Hampshire Magazine, described the feeling of visiting our bookshop in Lee:
The rustic floorboards are steady underfoot, making not a squeak to distract the minds of those who search the shelves. Each nook and surface and collection of curiosities is arranged by careful hands to facilitate curiosity and a sense of place in this cosmos of books. The labels defining areas of interest are thoughtfully hand-penned, suggesting that there are human guides nearby should a browser decide to come up for air and inquire about a specific title.
Read more at nhmagazine.com
One-Of-A-Kind Treasures in New Hampshire
Beloved Newbury Street used bookstore finds new life in 18th-century N.H. barn
Reporter Brian MacQuarrie visited our humble little book barn and then shocked us with a story on the front page of the Saturday edition of the Boston Globe!
The piece is lovely and captured the essence of why Vince & Thais reopened Avenue Victor Hugo books after a long hiatus from retail bookselling:
Now, the books have moved to the quiet center of this southern New Hampshire village, waiting to be held, and opened, and plumbed for the magic that lies inside. It’s a magic that McCaffrey and his wife, Thais, couldn’t resist rekindling, with or without the prospect of commercial success.
Read more at bostonglobe.com.
New Hampshire Chronicle: Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop in the 603
See more at wmur.com.