Owner of New York's Strand Turned Struggling Book Store Into a Literary Landmark

Fred Bass took over the Strand, his father’s struggling book store in New York, and turned it into a literary landmark. Mr. Bass, who died this month, was bold enough to buy books in bulk. “You can’t sell a book you don’t have,” he told one interviewer.

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