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Last Bookseller - A Life in the Rare Book Trade

English · Hardback

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"A wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade during its last Golden Age"--

List of contents










Contents
Introduction
1. Four Thousand Bad Books
2. Book Scouts and Dead Booksellers
3. Billions of Books
4. All for the Want of a Book
5. A Book Fair with the General
6. Bookman’s Alley and McCosh’s Mansion
7. Beating the Bushes
8. A Bookstore in Stillwater
9. Hoarding and Horse Barns
10. Travels to Book Towns
11. The King of Hay-on-Wye
12. The Mormon and the Map Thief
13. North America’s First Book Town
14. The Book Collectors
15. The Stillwater Booktown Times
16. The Beginning of the End
17. Survival Tactics
Epilogue
Appendix: Travel Journal
Acknowledgments
Bibliography


About the author










Gary Goodman is a semi-retired rare book dealer who lives in Stillwater, Minnesota. He put six kids through college selling secondhand books, a feat that makes him a genuine American hero. He is coauthor of The Stillwater Booktown Times and The Secret History of Golf in Scotland.


Product details

Authors Gary Goodman
Publisher University Of Minnesota Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.11.2021
 
EAN 9781517912574
ISBN 978-1-5179-1257-4
No. of pages 200
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies

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