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Loading... A Factotum in the Book Trade (edition 2022)by Marius Kociejowski (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A bookstore clerk, who is also a recognized author in his own right, on the occasion of his retirement from the trade pens a personal and thoughtful reminiscing of his professional adventures. Although not all anecdotes are equally engaging, on the whole the memoir offers a delightful insight into a sadly disappearing commercial offering. While there are books aplenty of this type, this one is hits particularly close to home because it closes on the COVID pandemic, which caused him to miss his last day on the job. ( ) no reviews | add a review
"A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves--and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favourite neighbourhood bookshop. From his childhood in rural Ontario, where at the village jumble sale he bought poetry volumes for their pebbled-leather covers alone, to his all-but-accidental entrance into the trade in London and the career it turned into, poet and travel writer Marius Kociejowski recounts his life among the buyers, sellers, customers, and literary nobility--the characters, fictional and not--who populate these places we all love. Cataloging their passions and pleasures, oddities and obsessions, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey through their lives, and a story of the serendipities and collisions of fate, the mundane happenings and indelible encounters, the friendships, feuds, losses, and elations that characterize the business of books--and, inevitably, make up an unforgettable life."-- No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)381.45002092Social sciences Commerce, Communications, Transportation Commerce Specific products and services BooksLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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