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...never recall someone coming in here in which we could not find a language of some sort," Leyenson says...
...Nobody has the variety that we do," says David J. Leyenson, vice president and general manager of Schoenhof...
While Schoenhof's ships books around the world, many of its local clients are Harvard students and faculty, according to Leyenson...
Prices at Schoenhof's Leyenson maintains, are not higher than they are at other bookshops specializing in imported books, such as the Librairie Francaise in New York. And, if you don't like Schoenhof's for some reason, New York would actually be the closest place to get hold of foreign books. Schoenhof's definitely has a monopoly in the area. Students from Harvard, MIT, Tufts, and other nearby institutions invade the store at the beginning of each semester, looking for reading material that is unavailable elsewhere in the vicinity...
...more to this bookstore than reading material for classes. Schoenhof's sells grammar textbooks and dictionaries in 250 languages, comic books, current novels, mysteries, children's books, and books for specialists. It also functions as a wholesale retailer for institutions and bookstores throughout the country. This effort, according to Leyenson, is unparalled by any other bookstore in the country. "Others have tried but gone out of business," he says. "It's a tough...