Once upon a tome : the misadventures of a rare bookseller
Darkshire, Oliver2022
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Total copies: 1
Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackville Street (est. 1761) to interview for their bookselling apprenticeship, a decision which has bedevilled him ever since. He'd intended to stay for a year before launching into some less dusty, better remunerated career. Unfortunately for him, the alluring smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap proved irresistible. Soon he was balancing teetering stacks of first editions, fending off nonagenarian widows with a ten-foot pole and trying not to upset the store's resident ghost. For while Sotheran's might be a treasure trove of literary delights, it sings a siren song to eccentrics. This book is the rather colourful story of life in one of the world's oldest bookshops and a love letter to the benign, unruly world of antiquarian bookselling.
Main title:
Once upon a tome : the misadventures of a rare bookseller / Oliver Darkshire.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bantam Press, 2022.
Collation:
256 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781787636040 (hbk)1787636046 (hbk)9781529192995 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
381.45 DAR381.45
LC class:
Z325
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
468755