While looking for used Vision books at abebooks, I noticed one bookseller that had a lot of them, Cox & Cox.  As it turns out, they are located here in MA.  This being our tax-free weekend, I made an appointment and took a ride out to see the collection to save myself shipping charges since I wanted to buy a good many of them.

Roger Cox has a wonderful collection of Catholic and secular books that he has bought from closing Catholic schools.  Most of the time these books would have ended up in the trash if not for him offering to buy them.

Not only does he have a lot of books for sale, he of course has read many of them.  He is better than most Children's Librarians I have spoken to in what he knows.

He explained something interesting to me: Publishing companies generally kept books in print even when the demand was low; that was until the tax laws changed in 1970.  Today publishers must pay taxes on their inventory, so if a book does not sell well, publishers take them out of print rather than pay taxes on the stock.  This is why all these really great books from the 1950s and 1960s are no longer available.

Check out his stock and decent prices at http://www.tomfolio.com/shop/CoxAndCox (CoxAndCox is case sensitive.)

I came home with a box full of Vision books and was treated to wonderful books and conversation.