Renaissance Books

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Renaissance Books is a large independent bookstore in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded in the early 1960s by George John and Erwin Just, it is now owned by Robert John, George's younger brother^[1]. The store's building is five stories high, housing somewhere from 250,000 to 500,000 volumes.

Renaissance also operates a branch at Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport, which opened in 1979^[2]; it is believed to have been the world's first used book store in an airport^[3]. It holds about 60,000 volumes.

[edit] References

• "Shabby Image Threatens to Cost Airport Bookstore Its Lease", Wall Street Journal, July 9, 1980
• Publishers Weekly, July 13, 1984
• "Used bookstores in Milwaukee", OnMilwaukee.com, Mark Zimmerman, July 3, 2000.