Author: PAPERS.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller. By William Young Darling.
Author: PAPERS.The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller
Author: Sir William Young DarlingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Bankrupt Bookseller. (The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller ... the Bankrupt Bookseller Speaks Again ...).
Author: Sir William Young DarlingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller
Author: Sir William Young DarlingPublisher: Edinburgh
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller. [Foreword Signed
Author: X. Y. E.The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Book Seller
Author: Sir William Young DarlingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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.
The Bankrupt Bookseller
Author: William Young DarlingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Bankrupt Bookseller
Author: Sir William Young DarlingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Confessions of a Bookseller
Author: Shaun BythellPublisher: Godine+ORM
ISBN: 1567926673
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A funny memoir of a year in the life of a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat while managing staff, customers, and life in the village of Wigtown. Inside a Georgian townhouse on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and a portly cat named Captain, Shaun Bythell manages the daily ups and downs of running Scotland’s largest used bookshop with a sharp eye and even sharper wit. His account of one year behind the counter is something no book lover should miss. Shaun drives to distant houses to buy private libraries, meditates on the nature of independent bookstores (“There really does seem to be a serendipity about bookshops, not just with finding books you never knew existed, or that you’ve been searching for, but with people too.”), and, of course, finds books for himself because he’s a reader, too. The next best thing to visiting your favorite bookstore (shop cat not included), Confessions of a Bookseller is a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books. It’s for any reader looking for the kind of friend you meet in a bookstore. Praise for Shaun Bythell and Confessions of a Bookseller “Something of Bythell’s curmudgeonly charm may be glimpsed in the slogan he scribbles on his shop’s blackboard: “Avoid social interaction: always carry a book.” —The Washington Post “Bythell’s wicked pen and keen eye for the absurd recall what comic Ricky Gervais might say if he ran a bookshop.” —The Wall Street Journal “Irascibly droll and sometimes elegiac, this is an engaging account of bookstore life from the vanishing front lines of the brick-and-mortar retail industry. Bighearted, sobering, and humane.” —Kirkus Reviews “Amusing and often cantankerous stories [that] bibliophiles will delight in, and occasionally wince at.” —Publishers Weekly