Author: Walters, Frank, Firm, Booksellers, New YorkPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Walters, Frank, Firm, Booksellers, New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
The Last Bookseller
Author: Gary GoodmanPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452966915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
A wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade during its last Golden Age When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982, he had no idea the visit would change his life. He walked in as a psychiatric counselor and walked out as the store’s new owner. In The Last Bookseller Goodman describes his sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious career as a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota—the early struggles, the travels to estate sales and book fairs, the remarkable finds, and the bibliophiles, forgers, book thieves, and book hoarders he met along the way. Here we meet the infamous St. Paul Book Bandit, Stephen Blumberg, who stole 24,000 rare books worth more than fifty million dollars; John Jenkins, the Texas rare book dealer who (probably) was murdered while standing in the middle of the Colorado River; and the eccentric Melvin McCosh, who filled his dilapidated Lake Minnetonka mansion with half a million books. In 1990, with a couple of partners, Goodman opened St. Croix Antiquarian Books in Stillwater, one of the Twin Cities region’s most venerable bookshops until it closed in 2017. This store became so successful and inspired so many other booksellers to move to town that Richard Booth, founder of the “book town” movement in Hay-on-Wye in Wales, declared Stillwater the First Book Town in North America. The internet changed the book business forever, and Goodman details how, after 2000, the internet made stores like his obsolete. In the 1990s, the Twin Cities had nearly fifty secondhand bookshops; today, there are fewer than ten. As both a memoir and a history of booksellers and book scouts, criminals and collectors, The Last Bookseller offers an ultimately poignant account of the used and rare book business during its final Golden Age.
Deer and Deer Hunting
Author: Robert WegnerPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811725859
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Complete reference on deer hunting lore, natural history, and science.
Midland Notes
Author: Midland Rare Book Co. (Mansfield, Ohio)Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
American Game
Author: The Angler's Guide to Twelve Classic Trout Streams in Michigan
Author: Gerth Edison HendricksonPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472082728
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The expanded and updated guide to Michigan's best trout fishing streams
Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper
Author: Eldred Nathaniel WoodcockPublisher:
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Category : Hunters
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: American Game Protective AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Game protection
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
American Game
Author: American Fishing Books
Author: Charles McKinley WetzelPublisher:
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Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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