We’ll be seeing you online after a brief hiatus to re-organize our stock following the closure of the retail shop in Lee.
Thanks again to all our wonderful customers who made the final sale such a success.
New books will be posted starting January 1st. In addition, we will be posting articles about books and bookselling that may entertain and inform the inner bibliophile in everyone.
News
AVH in the News and News About AVH
WGBH Boston: In Lee, New Hampshire, A Beloved Boston Bookstore Is Reborn
The Boston Globe’s New England Literary News
From The Boston Sunday Globe literary column:
The storied, atmospheric Avenue Victor Hugo bookstore lived on Newbury Street for nearly three decades before a rent hike (to $25k/month) forced the shop to shutter in 2004. For author and owner Vincent McCaffrey, re-opening sometime, somewhere was always the plan. And now, fifteen years later, it’s happened, this time, in an old barn in Lee, New Hampshire, where he and his wife now live.
Read more from this piece by Nina MacLaughlin at bostonglobe.com.

Foster’s: Legendary Boston bookstore reopens in Lee barn
Hadley Barndollar, an award-winning local reporter, profiled our store and its history for Foster’s Daily Democrat.

We’ve finally reopened!

As of yesterday, the barn in Lee, New Hampshire, is now open to browsers on Saturdays. After two and a half years of getting things in workable order (not perfect but workable, mind you) with shelves in place, books roughly alphabetical and categorized, lights wired, and just lately, digging out the salvaged artifacts from the old shop on Newbury Street that we put away fourteen years ago with faint hope of ever seeing them again (that now felt like the unwrapping of Christmas ornaments from their boxes) so that we might fill the odd spaces here with whimsey and give reference to our own past, we are here!
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