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When Tommy Savage opened his shop of used, rare and out-of-print books eight months ago, near the corner of Bluebonnet and Perkins, he wasn’t necessarily looking for a location right on the street.
People, he said, will find a bookstore.
They found his store previously in its St. Francisville location.
And, before that, customers found his first bookshop — one he operated for eight years — in the capital of Ecuador, a country he had fallen in love with in his travels.
In its present incarnation, the Thomas Savage Bookseller store is tucked away behind the Sprint store on Bluebonnet.
With limited parking but easy access back to the street, the bookstore can’t be seen from the road — though its sign can — but that doesn’t bother Savage.
“The difference between being on the street and not being on the street — it doesn’t really matter,” he said.
It’s something he’s learned, he said, in some 20 years of doing “nothing but eat, sleep, drink and dream the book business.”
Savage, 44, a native of Opelousas, who grew up in the Krotz Springs and Melville area on the Atchafalaya, said he was drawn away from his English studies at the state universities in Monroe and Lafayette by the lure of the book business.
The hook was a book he came across in Houston that he deemed to be a rare edition of a Hemingway novel.
Always a lover of books, Savage bought the edition with a $100 loan from his college roommate.
After some research, though, Savage said he “found out I had paid $100 for a $50 book.”
For some, that would be their first — and last — entry into rare book collecting.
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