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Confessions of a Bookseller
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A 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 largest bookshop, with internet and Amazon presence. Shaun drives to distant houses to buy private libraries, meditates on the nature of independent bookstores ("There really does s…
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- Author: Shaun Bythell
- Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
- Pages: 324
- ISBN-10: 156792722X
- ISBN-13: 9781567927221
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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A 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 largest bookshop, with internet and Amazon presence. 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.
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- Author: Shaun Bythell
- Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
- Pages: 324
- ISBN-10: 156792722X
- ISBN-13: 9781567927221
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
A 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 largest bookshop, with internet and Amazon presence. 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.
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 largest bookshop, with internet and Amazon presence. 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.
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