A Berkeley legend is being liquidated reports Susan Halas in “Serendity Books: The Final, Final, Final Farewell Sale”:

Peter Howard famously bought widely and he bought well. He bought so much he never had time to unpack a lot of it. A visit to Serendipity was always characterized by having to pry the bags and boxes away to see the books on the bottom shelves. At a buck a book count me in; I’m already shopping for my plane ticket.

Surely every dealer and collector who can get to Berkeley will be there. A sale of this caliber and at these prices has not been seen in living memory. And although it’s billed as the “Final Final Sale,’ it’s more likely this is only another beginning as the effects of the redistribution can be expected to ripple out through the book world for a long time to come.

The latest installment, estimated at 50,000 books, goes on sale beginning November 9.