Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2020 David R. Godine, Boston, MA. 2020. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; bumping to head and tail; soiling to boards; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good +; ; NOT Price Clipped ($25.95); shelfwear to had, tail, and tips; light wear to flap folds and spine shoulders. Blue paper over boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. Brown endpapers. 321 pp 8vo.This is the story of the book business as it is practiced in The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, in the largest second-hand bookshop in the country. This book is sardonic and sympathetic in equal measure as it charts the highs and lows of a year in the life of a charmingly cantankerous bookseller whose passion for books and his community outweigh his disdain for dimwitted customers. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

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Bookseller: Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 016921
Title: Confessions of a Bookseller
Author: Shaun Bythell
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Good +
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 1567926649
ISBN 13: 9781567926644
Publisher: David R. Godine
Place of Publication: Boston, MA
Date Published: 2020
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: books, booksellers, bookstores, selling books, buying books, Scotland, The Bookstore, Shaun Bythell, Wigtown Scotland, book business, buying and selling books, used books, second-hand books,
Bookseller catalogs: Autobiography;

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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.

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