The bookstore tourism website Literary Tourist sent someone into our bookstore this week and made a video that excellently displays the massive breath of the shelving throughout the old factory floors. Certainly a lo-fi video, but it does the job.
How big is John K. King Used and Rare Books in Detroit? This big times five floors, plus another building.
Channel 4 caught wind of our being rated as the 2nd best bookstore in the world and first in the United States by business insider and did a nice piece showing some of the rarer items in our stocks.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/detroits-king-books-named-among-best-in-america/25057546
An artistic depiction of one of Mr. King's statues of the bard
Watch Detroit did a short documentary feature on the bookstore complete with an interview of John King himself and other veteran staff members.
Uploaded by WatchDetroit on 2014-03-10.
Michigan's largest bookstore with over one million used and rare books. Operating since 1965, located in in downtown Detroit.
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