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Confessions of a Bookseller by Bythell, Shaun , hardcover
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- ISBN
- 9781567926644
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Publisher
- Godine Publisher, David R.
- Topic
- Industries / Retailing, Cultural Heritage, Books, Business, Biography & Autobiography, Antiques & Collectibles, Business & Economics
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One cozy, funny year with a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat while managing staff, customers, and life in the village of Wigtown. This endearing world is the next best thing to visiting your favorite bookstore (shop cat not included). 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 copes with eccentric staff, tallies up the day's orders, drives to distant houses to buy private libraries, and meditates on the nature of life and 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." ). 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Godine Publisher, David R.
ISBN-10
1567926649
ISBN-13
9781567926644
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038471314
Product Key Features
Language
English
Topic
Industries / Retailing, Cultural Heritage, Books, Business, Biography & Autobiography, Antiques & Collectibles, Business & Economics
Illustrator
Yes
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6in
Additional Product Features
Book Title
Confessions of a Bookseller
Lc Classification Number
Z325.B97b968 2019
Reviews
Praise for Confessions of a Bookseller "A bookseller in Wigtown, Scotland, recounts a year in his life as a small-town dealer of secondhand books....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 "An astute observer once remarked to Scottish bookseller Shaun Bythell that 'every industry has its porn.' For thosewho crave the specific 'filth' of literary voyeurism: Bythell's Confessions of a Bookseller is here to sate your appetites....An enveloping account from the front lines of an industry in flux".-- Foreword Praise for Diary of a Bookseller (Melville House, 2018) "Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've ever read." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny..."-- Daily Mail
Format
Hardcover
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2019-051062
Dewey Decimal
381/.45002092 B
Publication Year
2020
Dewey Edition
23
Number of Pages
324 Pages
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