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Watkins Books has re-opened under new ownership after the business was bought by American entrepreneur Etan Ilfeld last week.
The shop - London's oldest esoteric bookshop - re-opened on 13th March and will trade five days a week, from Tuesday to Saturday and Ilfeld has re-employed seven out of the previous nine staff.
Watkins closed on 23rd February following the appointment of administrator Harris Lipman. Ilfeld purchased the business just two weeks before it was due to be liquidated.
He said: "I wanted to get it back on track, I thought every day is was shut was such a shame."
Ilfeld added that he planned to "re-ignite" the shop by getting more stock in, but said that business would still run as usual and it would remain a specialist bookshop.
Ilfeld will also be re-launching the Watkins website over the next couple of months, and is hiring an online marketing specialist to rebuild the website.
"I really think it is important to move the Watkins community online and into the 21st century," he said. "The idea is to try and share the knowledge base with the online community, every staff member is a specialist in one way or another. There is a lot of culture and I'm going to make that accessible to the wider public."