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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20030318
Author:Cox, Christopher

Byline: CHRISTOPHER COX

Turns out the final chapter has yet to be written on Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop.

Last fall, it seemed the story of the Back Bay bookseller had reached the epilogue: an everything-must-go sale before the doors of 339 Newbury St. closed for good.

By the end of December, the John Grisham bestsellers and Victorian-era bound sets, the old issues of Life and the Zane Grey paperbacks, the vintage postcards and the first-edition mysteries would vanish, to be replaced by a shoe store. Then, in the 11th hour, owner Vince McCaffrey and his Old World ...

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