MONDAY - FRIDAY
10:00am - 5:30pm
SATURDAY
10:00am - 5:00pm
mccbi@bellsouth.net
(662)332-5038 825 South Main Street
Greenville, MS 38701
PHOTO BY DIANA WALKER
| Gizmo
March 1994 - April 2008 If you visited the Book Inn a couple of years ago, chances are you met Gizmo. She "received" almost daily until age-related problems made making her grand entrances too difficult and greeting her admirers too tiring.
A customer whose daughter breeds Tibetan Spaniels told us that's what she was... mostly. Although her personality certainly fit every profile we read about the rare delightful breed, we were never sure of her heritage. That was okay. What mattered was that on a cool spring day fourteen years ago she chose our front steps to bounce up and announce "I'm here for you to love!" And we did.
 Her gentle little spirit filled
our home, workplace and hearts with peace and comfort and whimsy.
You can read about Gizmo and 171 other lost or abandoned dogs who found homes in the wonderful book Second Chances by Elise Lufkin and internationally renown Time magazine photographer Diana Walker. The foreward is by Jamie Lee Curtis. All royalties were donated to animal aid.
PLEASE SUPPORT
YOUR LOCAL
HUMANE GROUP
If you'd like to help lost and abandoned dogs less fortunate than Gizmo, please donate to
Washington County, MS's ARRF (Animal Relief & Rescue Fellowship). They're an over-worked handful of volunteers who create hundreds of miracles annually with only private support. To visit
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If you do adopt,
this GUIDE can help Between 6-8 million
cats & dogs are taken to shelters each year. Rescue Me! covers the many practical options for locating, welcoming and caring for a new dog or puppy in the home. Rescue Me!
by Bardi McLennan
$12.95 128 pgs Paperback
w/full color photos
2008 DWAA
Award Winner
2008 ASPCA
Human Issues Award
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Thank you
Delta
Democrat
Times
readers! 2007, 2008
& 2009 
(The following article isn't about us. It's about all book stores everywhere.)
The New York Times Sunday Book Review:
June 25, 2006
THE END OF AUTHORSHIP
By John Updike
Booksellers, you are the salt of the book world. You are on the front line where, while the author cowers in his opium den, you encounter — or "interface with," as we say now — the rare and mysterious Americans who are willing to plunk down $25 for a book. Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods... For the entire article go to:
Sunday Book Review
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| McCormick Book Inn is Mississippi's oldest independent bookseller. |  Opened by our family in 1965, and managed by Hugh B. McCormick III, we've grown over the years from one cozy room to three, filled with today's most popular and influential books for adults and children. We're especially proud of our Greenville authors' showcase, extensive Mississippi and Delta titles, and historical collections.  Our floor squeaks under worn rugs and the wooden book shelves sag a bit. The rocker by the fireplace is often occupied by a regular browser, and our "bookstore smell" is authentic.
Quaint ambiance aside, our computer research and ordering capabilities are state of the art. We access the nation's largest literary wholesalers daily for stock and special orders.
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 OUR GREENVILLE WRITERS SHOWCASE
OUR WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL COLLECTION |   |
What SouthernLiving.com says about us in their Delta Journal:This slice of Mississippi has more color and character per square mile than any place you’ll visit. Come along for the ride, and discover why. Meet ’n’ Greet
No matter where you lay your head in The Delta, you'll quickly see that it's not so much the towns as the people who define it. Forget text messaging. Deltans love conversation, and they gather for it in places as varied as Fratesi's store east of Leland and McCartys Pottery and Gallery Restaurant in Merigold. People come from all over The Delta to visit Greenville's McCormick Book Inn, with its terrific collection of what they like to call "Deltalogy." Half the draw is owner Hugh McCormick, who not only recommends great books but also knows everything about everybody in The Delta. He also has a wicked sense of humor. "You know, Leland is the sticks," he tells us with a wry grin, as a Leland customer pays for her books. The Mississippi Delta offers the ultimate Southern travel adventure—catfish and fried tamales, juke joints brimming with blues, colorful small towns, and friendly locals who can’t wait to show you a good time Where to Shop
McCormick Book Inn
825 South Main Street
Greenville
www.mccormickbookinn.com or (662) 332-5038
Hours: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday
Out-of-towners might find it tricky to locate this terrific independent bookstore. Just remember that it’s on south Main, which is on the opposite side of U.S. 82 from Main Street--so if you find yourself a stone’s throw from the levee, you went the wrong way. McCormick’s stocks a wonderful collection of books about Mississippi--particularly The Delta--as well as works by Mississippi authors. There’s also a good children’s collection. Don’t miss the back room, which houses an intriguing Greenville/Delta archive.
AS SEEN ON TV !
BROADCAST 04/18/08
Look Around MS: Greenville Bookstore| by Walt Grayson for WLBT We're going to a museum that brings together what Greenville is best known for. And probably leading the list would be writers, followed closely by the 1927 flood. And with the Mississippi being so high right now, I thought it would be interesting to pay a visit to the back rooms at McCormick Book Inn on Main Street in Greenville. |
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McCormick Book Inn is one of the rare breed of independent book stores that has made it, in a world of mass-market competition. Of course, you'll not find the attention to Mississippi writers and, in particular Delta and Greenville writers in national book chains that McCormick's gives.
And it was partly that specializing in Mississippi writers that started the little Greenville Museum in the back of the store. Hugh McCormick says in collecting books by local writers, turns out some were quite rare and needed to be put under glass. | McCormick says, "We have always carried our book collection of Greenville writers, and that was on display in the front room but have since brought it back to the back room. My particular interest is the turn of the century of Greenville. I'm also interested in the 1927 flood. I have a fairly large collection of Greenville photographs of the flood."; Any time the Mississippi River gets as high as it is right now there seems to be a great deal of attention raised in past floods, in particular the flood of 1927. And in McCormick's twin specialties, Delta writers and the 1927 flood, there seems to be a great deal of overlap. Because there are a number of writers who have written about the flood. And why not? In the first half of the 20th century, the 1927 flood was about the biggest event that most of the writers living Greenville southward in the Delta at that time had ever gone through. The flood is the whole skeleton William Alexander Percy hangs Lanterns on the Levee around. And the very first story noted historian and Greenville native Shelby Foote ever had published was a tale called Flood Burial. To say Delta writers have immersed themselves in themes of floods is a pun that is applicable. Rule number one, you write what you know. There's other odds and ins in the McCormick Book Inn Museum. Delta trivia, a lot of it. All in an attempt to keep the Delta story within reach of we who are decades beyond most of it. That's what really inspired the Greenville and Delta collection, Hugh McCormick's desire to know what it was really like "back then" but only realizing his desire to know came after it was too late to ask. © Copyright 2001 - 2008 WorldNow and WLBT
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|  Southern Living  April 2008
features the Mississippi Delta and kindly mentions McCormick Book Inn!
A terrific overview of the best of the Delta begins on page 90 of the April 2008 issue. Many thanks to writer Valerie Luesse, photographer Art Meripol, & Southern Living.
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Delta Democrat Times: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Profile: Hugh McCormick
Promoting our culture
McCormick family opened book store in '65
by Logan Mosby GREENVILLE-- A third-generation Greenvillian, Hugh McCormick has spent nearly 40 years setting the stage for the literary scene in the Port City. McCormick Book Inn has become a part of the historic landscape of the Delta, which its owner said is both pleasing and intriguing. "I would like to think there would have been a void were we not here," McCormick said... LINK
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 We clean up good! McCormick Book Inn was the January 2007 Greenville Chamber of Commerce Keep Greenville Clean & Green Winner (they liked our bright red nandinas against evergreen yaupons in the dead of winter). The last time we won such an award was when we opened in 1965. Hope it doesn't take us that long next time.
photo BY BILL JOHNSON, DELTA DEMOCRAT TIMES
Delta Living: Delta Democrat Times Magazine, Spring 2007
42 years & counting - McCormick Book Inn takes care of the Delta's literary needs 
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Story by Woodrow Wilkins
Photography by Bill Johnson For 42 years, McCormick Book Inn has been a fixture on South Main Street, specializing in books of local or regional interest. With some space given to national best sellers, the thing that sets this store apart from others in the area is its Mississippi content. That not only helps the business stay in the game long after national chain book stores have left Greenville, but also attracts visitors from all over — particularly those with an interest in Greenville or Delta history... LINK
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& Greenville:
it’s like drinking
the brown water.
It’s just what we do. |  Bluesman Eddie Cusick playing by the Book Inn bottle tree (May 2004) |
  1965
the original building before buster mccormick remodeled
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