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Once Upon a Tome
Author: Darkshire, Oliver
Publisher: Bantam Press
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.
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Weight | 0.377 kg |
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Dimensions | 22.2 × 14.4 × 2.6 cm |
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Cover | Hardback |
Pages | ix, 244 |
Language | English |
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Dewey | 381.45002092 (edition:23) |
Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |