Confessions of a Bookseller

2020
 |  Biography & Autobiography
Confessions of a Bookseller

Author: Shaun Bythell

Publisher:

ISBN: 1567926649

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 324

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The new UK bestseller by the author of DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER--here's a memoir every bit as warm and welcoming as a visit to your very favorite bookstore. Inside a stone-faced Georgian townhouse on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and one portly shop cat, Shaun Bythell manages the ups and downs of Scotland's largest used bookshop with a sharp eye and even sharper wit.

Confessions of a Bookseller

2019-08-29
 |  Biography & Autobiography
Confessions of a Bookseller

Author: Shaun Bythell

Publisher: Profile Books

ISBN: 9781782835394

Category: Biography & Autobiography

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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' Scotland on Sunday "Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms. Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is, home invasions during the Wigtown Book Festival and Granny, his neurotic Italian assistant who likes digging for river mud to make poultices.

The Last Bookseller

2021-12-07
 |  Biography & Autobiography
The Last Bookseller

Author: Gary Goodman

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

ISBN: 9781452966915

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 200

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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.

Remainders of the Day

2022-11
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Remainders of the Day

Author: Shaun Bythell

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ISBN: 1800817568

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Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown.

Remainders of the Day

2022-11-29
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Remainders of the Day

Author: Shaun Bythell

Publisher:

ISBN: 1567927564

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Page: 324

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One funny year with bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell. The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland is a bookworm's idyll, with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the portly bookshop cat. You'd think that after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to his quirky customers by now. Don't get him wrong, there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard train book lovers, people who confuse bookshops for libraries, and the toddlers just looking for a nice cozy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are some good ones. There must be . . . right!? Filled with the pernickety warmth and humor that has touched readers around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems, and incunabula, Remainders of the Day is Shaun Bythell's latest entry in his bestselling diary series.

Bookseller

1886
 |  Bibliography
Bookseller

Author:

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015071099306

Category: Bibliography

Page: 1712

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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

2020-11
 |  Antiquarian booksellers
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

Author: Shaun Bythell

Publisher:

ISBN: 1788166582

Category: Antiquarian booksellers

Page: 137

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Everyone knows who you find in bookshops: people who want to buy books. But, as Shaun Bythell, author of the bestselling Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller, reveals, that's really only half the story. Join Shaun as he introduces us to seven bookshop characters, from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare and all the way over to the erotica section, where we'll meet The Person Who Is Up to No Good. Affectionate, sardonic and laugh-out-loud funny, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops is your indispensable guide to the flora and fauna of your local bookshop.

The Confessions of J. Lackington, Late Bookseller, at the Temple of the Muses

2017-12-14
 |  Religion
The Confessions of J. Lackington, Late Bookseller, at the Temple of the Muses

Author: James Lackington

Publisher: Forgotten Books

ISBN: 0332798933

Category: Religion

Page: 196

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Excerpt from The Confessions of J. Lackington, Late Bookseller, at the Temple of the Muses: In a Series of Letters to a Friend Several of my friends have thought that, if the following letters were made public, they might prove useful as a warning to others not to fall into those errors which had nearly prov ed fatal to me and also, as an alarm to some of those who are already fallen into that dread. Ful state of infidelity; from which, by the great mercy of God, I am happily escaped. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.