Last Bookseller - A Life in the Rare Book Trade

"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