Man’s huge book collection goes up for sale in South Hills
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A collection of about 150,000 books amassed by a man who was unable to open a Pittsburgh-area bookstore before his death is on sale.
The Tribune-Review of Pittsburgh reports that the books will be open to the public Saturday and Sunday at the old Kensington Electric building in Bethel.
The collection is larger than that of most local libraries and even tops the 2012 circulation of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Downtown and Business branch.
Paul Radion Jr.’s collection includes cookbooks, textbooks, literary classics, nonfiction, books in other languages, rare books, first editions and autographed books.
His daughter says a sale last fall barely made a dent in the collection, and now the books are organized on shelves, but three trailers remain half-full of books.
Radion died March 1.