Gary Goodman

The Last Bookseller

A Life in the Rare Book Trade

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Produktbeschreibung

"When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982, he had no idea the visit would change his life. In The Last Bookseller Goodman describes his sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious career as a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota-the early struggles, the travels to estate sales and book fairs, the remarkable finds, and the bibliophiles, forgers, book thieves, and book hoarders he meets along the way. As both a memoir and a history of booksellers and book scouts, criminals and collectors, The Last Bookseller offers an ultimately poignant account of the used and rare book business during its final Golden Age"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 138mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781517916619
• ISBN-10: 1517916615
• Artikelnr.: 67864765

Autorenporträt

Gary Goodman is a semi-retired rare book dealer who lives in Stillwater, Minnesota. He put six kids through college selling secondhand books, a feat that makes him a genuine American hero. He is coauthor of The Stillwater Booktown Times and The Secret History of Golf in Scotland.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1. Four Thousand Bad Books
2. Book Scouts and Dead Booksellers
3. Billions of Books
4. All for the Want of a Book
5. A Book Fair with the General
6. Bookman’s Alley and McCosh’s Mansion
7. Beating the Bushes
8. A Bookstore in Stillwater
9. Hoarding and Horse Barns
10. Travels to Book Towns
11. The King of Hay-on-Wye
12. The Mormon and the Map Thief
13. North America’s First Book Town
14. The Book Collectors
15. The Stillwater Booktown Times
16. The Beginning of the End
17. Survival Tactics
Epilogue
Appendix: Travel Journal
Acknowledgments
Bibliography