Download or read book Some Random Reminiscences of an Antiquarian Bookseller written by Harold C. Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Random Reminiscences 1902 written by Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Once Upon a Tome The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller written by Oliver Darkshire and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant National Bestseller Shortlisted for the 2023 Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award "Witty, literary and very funny." —Minneapolis Star Tribune Welcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, poisoned books, and some things that aren’t even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice. Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store’s resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram). A novice in this ancient, potentially haunted establishment, Darkshire describes Sotheran’s brushes with history (Dickens, the Titanic), its joyous disorganization, and the unspoken rules of its gleefully old-fashioned staff, whose mere glance may cause the computer to burst into flames. As Darkshire gains confidence and experience, he shares trivia about ancient editions and explores the strange space that books occupy in our lives—where old books often have strong sentimental value, but rarely a commercial one. By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a Tome is the colorful story of life in one of the world’s oldest bookshops and a love letter to the benign, unruly world of antiquarian bookselling, where to be uncommon or strange is the best possible compliment.
Download or read book Random Reminiscences of Men and Events 1909 written by John Davison Rockefeller and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.
Download or read book Random Reminiscences of Men and Events 1909 written by John Davison Rockefeller and published by . This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books written by Bancroft Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Collecting and Managing Rare Law Books written by Tarlton Law Library and published by Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Glanville Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Nine Unlikely Tales written by Edith Nesbit and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great many kings who were not at all respectable would have given their royal ears to be allowed to send their daughters to this school, but Miss Fitzroy Robinson was very firm about references, and the consequence was that all the really high-class kings were only too pleased to be permitted to pay ten thousand pounds a year for their daughtersÕ education. And so Miss Fitzroy Robinson was able to lay aside a few pounds as a provision for her old age. And all the money she saved was invested in land. Only one monarch refused to send his daughter to Miss Fitzroy Robinson, on the ground that so cheap a school could not be a really select one, and it was found out afterwards that his references were not at all satisfactory. There were only six boarders, and of course the best masters were engaged to teach the royal pupils everything which their parents wished them to learn, and as the girls were never asked to do lessons except when they felt quite inclined, they all said it was the nicest school in the world, and cried at the very thought of being taken away. Thus it happened that the six pupils were quite grown up and were just becoming parlour boarders when events began to occur. Princess Daisy, the daughter of King Fortunatus, the ruling sovereign, was the only little girl in the school. Now it was when she had been at school about a year, that a ring came at the front door-bell, and the maid-servant came to the schoolroom with a visiting card held in the corner of her apronÑfor her hands were wet because it was washing-day. ÒA gentleman to see you, Miss,Ó she said; and Miss Fitzroy Robinson was quite fluttered because she thought it might be a respectable monarch, with a daughter who wanted teaching. But when she looked at the card she left off fluttering, and said, ÒDear me!Ó under her breath, because she was very genteel. If she had been vulgar like some of us she would have said ÒBother!Ó and if she had been more vulgar than, I hope, any of us are, she might have said ÒDrat the man!Ó The card was large and shiny and had gold letters on it.
Download or read book Books Friends and Bibliophilia written by Anton Gerits and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First English language edition. "Books, Friends, and Bibliophilia" is a unique autobiographical by a very interesting Dutch antiquarian bookseller. The book is also a well-written look behind the scenes of Europe's antiquarian book trade from 1950 to the present. With a story rich in anedotes and colorful characters, Anton Gertis introduces us to many of the giants of the trade such as H.P. Kraus, Maurice L. Ettinghausen, and Menno Hertzberger with both modesty and wit. He weaves within his work the stories behind the building of important private libraries and the Special Collections department in the institutional libraries of Western Europe and behind the Iron Curtain.Anton Gertis is past President of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also the author of over a dozen books; however, this memoir is an excellent overview of his long and fascinating career and will be of interest to collectors and bibliophiles the world over.
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