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An interview with Amazing Bookshelf, Llc

Biblio checks in with Amazing Bookshelf, Llc to learn more about their book business, collecting interests and more! To view and shop their inventory, click here.


When did you get started in bookselling?

While I was in college.


What drew you to bookselling?

New college textbooks were very expensive while I was in school and I was always searching to find it cheaper.


Did you have any mentors in becoming a bookseller?

No.


What are your specialties as a dealer?

Rear out of print or hard to find collectibles.


What's the most amazing book you've ever sold?

I don't remember to be honest with you there are so many of them.


What is your favorite part of being a bookseller?

To help people find what they're looking for.


Do you have an open storefront or have you in the past?

No. Not yet.


If so, do/did you have any bookstore pets?

No.


What is the funniest / strangest / scariest thing that ever happened in your store?

I remember I was getting a lot of orders on a book that was very popular that I had to ask my clients to wait until publisher reprints more copies.


What is your favorite bookshop (other than your own)?

Barnes & Nobles, Amazon, and BAM!


What do you personally like to read? Collect?

Fiction.


What's your favorite book you personally own? Would you sell it, if the price were right?

Rite & Reason.


What one book would you buy if price were no object?

Ben Ish Hai Halachot


If you were stranded on a desert island and could bring three books, what would they be?

Psalms of the King David, Cheshbon ha-Nefesh and Strive for Truth!