Collectors Treasury
Eight-storey art deco building crammed with over two million second-hand books, records and antiques.
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This guide to Collectors Treasury in Johannesburg opens with Zelda Klass, a Lithuanian immigrant who arrived with nothing and sold ginger beer on the streets of Yeoville, and follows her grandson Geoffrey Klass, who in 1974 opened a small shop above a garage with his brother Jonathan and just three thousand books. It traces how that shop grew until 1991, when the brothers bought an entire eight-storey Art Deco building on Commissioner Street and renamed it CTP House. Listen for how Jonathan once described the way the place grew, as you pass towers of paperbacks leaning over the aisles.
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