![]() You can read a more detailed account of John King’s story on our About Us page. King has stubbornly agreed to bring at least part of the store experience into the digital age, cataloging the Rare Book collection on for easy online browsing, as well as introducing a social media presence. Today, that building contains our offices, Art Annex, and the Rare Book Room, which houses some of the more fragile or scarce items in his collection. A few years later, John King purchased the former Otis Elevator building next door to the store. The original Advance Glove floor mat can still be found at the entrance to the store, as well as the giant red glove that still remains painted on the side of the building. After the factory was shut down, it sat vacant until Mr. ![]() The West Lafayette location was formerly the Advance Glove Factory, which operated from the 1940s to the 1970s. King occupied a storefront in the Michigan Theatre Building, which now serves as an ornate parking structure in Downtown Detroit. Previous to the current location of the store at 901 West Lafayette, Mr. Since then, he has continually advanced in the field starting out selling books out of the trunk of his 1954 Packard to present day, offering over a million titles that can only be housed within four expansive floors of seemingly endless shelves. King started in the book business when he was just a teenager in 1965. ![]()
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