The Diary of a Bookseller
by Bythell, Shaun
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1781258627
- ISBN 13
- 9781781258620
- Seller
-
Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
Profile Books, 2017 8vo (22.5 cm), [4], 310 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "The Bookshop, Wigtown, is Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It's a booklover's paradise, a Georgian townhouse full of twisting corridors and roaring fires, set in a beautiful town by the edge of the sea. But behind the scenes of this slice of literary heaven, things are very different. Meet Shaun Bythell, owner of The Bookshop, bibliophile and misanthrope extraordinaire. Seen through his honest and wryly hilarious diaries, we get a very different view of bookselling: one beset with malfunctioning heating, eccentric customers, bad-mannered, bin-foraging employees and a perennially empty till. As Shaun takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the charms and horrors of small town life, we gain an inside look at the trials, tribulations and joys of life in the book trade." (from the blurb)
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008929
- Title
- The Diary of a Bookseller
- Author
- Bythell, Shaun
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1781258627
- ISBN 13
- 9781781258620
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 2017
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography;
Terms of Sale
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Biblio member since 2019
Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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