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84, Charing Cross Roadby Helene Hanff, Frank Doel, Marks & CoISBN 1559211407 (1-55921-140-7)
Hardcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: '84, Charing Cross Road'Book summary:84, Charing Cross Road is a charming record of bibliophilia, cultural difference, and imaginative sympathy. For 20 years, an outspoken New York writer and a rather more restrained London bookseller carried on an increasingly touching correspondence. In her first letter to Marks & Co., Helene Hanff encloses a wish list, but warns, "The phrase 'antiquarian booksellers' scares me somewhat, as I equate 'antique' with expensive." Twenty days later, on October 25, 1949, a correspondent identified only as FPD let Hanff know that works by Hazlitt and Robert Louis Stevenson would be coming under separate cover. When they arrive, Hanff is ecstatic--but unsure she'll ever conquer "bilingual arithmetic." By early December 1949, Hanff is suddenly worried that the six-pound ham she's sent off to augment British rations will arrive in a kosher office. But only when FPD turns out to have an actual name, Frank Doel, does the real fun begin.
Two years later, Hanff is outraged that Marks & Co. has dared to send an abridged Pepys diary. "i enclose two limp singles, i will make do with this thing till you find me a real Pepys. THEN i will rip up this ersatz book, page by page, AND WRAP THINGS IN IT." Nonetheless, her postscript asks whether they want fresh or powdered eggs for Christmas. Soon they're sharing news of Frank's family and Hanff's career. No doubt their letters would have continued, but in 1969, the firm's secretary informed her that Frank Doel had died. In the collection's penultimate entry, Helene Hanff urges a tourist friend, "If you happen to pass by 84, Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me. I owe it so much." [via]
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- 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 1559210540 (1-55921-054-0)
Hardcover, M. Bell - 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 0140143505 (0-14-014350-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 0670290734 (0-670-29073-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 0670290742 (0-670-29074-2)
Hardcover, Grossman - 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 074517115X (0-7451-7115-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 1559211407 (1-55921-140-7)
Hardcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
- 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 1559210540 (1-55921-054-0)
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Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Booksby Wendy WerrisISBN 078671817X (0-7867-1817-X)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Books'Book summary:Little did Wendy Werris imagine that when she began a temp job at a Hollywood bookstore in 1970 at age nineteen, she had embarked on a thirty-five year career that would stretch into a journey of self-discovery and literary enlightenment. In An Alphabetical Life, Werris reflects upon how she came to embrace the book culture as her singular way of being in the world. Her career began when the book business was conducted amid an atmosphere of civility and wry humor, and her memoir captures the essence of this time and the people she met along the way. The challenges she faced, in what was then a male-dominated industry, are also discussed - particularly in 1976 when she was one of only two women repping books in the entire country. In describing the hilarious, eccentric characters that were her colleagues, lovers, and partners in crime, the essence of retail bookselling comes alive. Among the figures she profiles are Henry Robbins, editor of The World According to Garp; Alan Kahn, then of Pickwick Bookshop in Los Angeles, now President of Barnes and Noble Publishing; and many great and memorable retail bookbuyers and authors. [via]
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The Book Lover's Guide to Boston and Cape Codby Lane PhalenISBN 1880339080 (1-880339-08-0)
Softcover, Brigadoon Bay Books
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Book Lovers' Londonby Lesley ReaderISBN 1902910265 (1-902910-26-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Book on the Bookshelfby Henry PetroskiISBN 0375706399 (0-375-70639-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book on the Bookshelf'Book summary:Consider the book. Though Goodnight Moon and Finnegans Wake differ considerably in content and intended audience, they do share some basic characteristics. They have pages, they're roughly the same shape, and whether in a bookstore, library, or private home, they are generally stored vertically on shelves. Indeed, this is so much the norm that in these days of high-tech printing presses and chain bookstores, it's easy to believe that the book, like the cockroach, remains much the same as it ever was. But as Henry Petroski makes abundantly clear in Book on the Bookshelf, books as we know them have had a long and complex evolution. Indeed, he takes us from the scroll to the codex to the hand-lettered illuminated texts that were so rare and valuable they were chained to lecterns to prevent theft. Along the way he provides plenty of amusing anecdotes about libraries (according to one possibly apocryphal account, the library at Alexandria borrowed the works of the great Greek authors from Athens, had them copied, and then sent the copies back, keeping the originals), book collectors, and the care of books.
Book-lover though he may be, however, Henry Petroski is, first and foremost, an engineer and so, in the end, it is the evolution of bookshelves even more than of books that fascinates him. Pigeonholes for scrolls, book presses containing thousands of chained volumes, rotating lecterns that allowed scholars to peruse more than one book at a time--these are just a few of the ingenious methods readers have devised over the centuries for storing their books: "in cabinets beneath the desks, on shelves in front of them, in triangular attic-like spaces formed under the back-to-back sloped surfaces of desktops or small tabletop lecterns that rested upon a horizontal surface." Placing books vertically on shelves, spines facing outward, is a fairly recent invention, it would seem. Well written as it is, if Book on the Bookshelf were only about books-as-furniture, it would have little appeal to the general reader. Petroski, however, uses this treatise on design to examine the very human motivations that lie behind it. From the example of Samuel Pepys, who refused to have more titles than his library could hold (about 3,000), to an appendix detailing all the ways people organize their collections (by sentimental value, by size, by color, and by price, to name a few of the more unconventional methods), Petroski peppers his account with enough human interest to keep his audience reading from cover to cover. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Book Row Americaby Madeleine B. Stern, Marvin MondlinISBN 0786713054 (0-7867-1305-4)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Tradeby Roy Meador, Marvin Modlin, Madeleine B. SternISBN 0786716525 (0-7867-1652-5)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Booklover's Guide to New Orleansby Susan LarsonISBN 0807124168 (0-8071-2416-8)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Bookseller of Kabulby Asne Seierstad, Ingrid ChristophersenISBN 0316159417 (0-316-15941-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bookseller Of Kabul'Book summary:With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. Invited to live with Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, and his family for months, this account of her experience allows the Khans to speak for themselves, giving us a genuinely gripping and moving portrait of a family, and of a country of great cultural riches and extreme contradictions. For more than 20 years, Sultan Khan has defied the authorities--whether Communist or Taliban--to supply books to the people of Kabul. He has been arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned, and has watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. Yet he had persisted in his passion for books, shedding light in one of the world's darkest places. This is the intimate portrait of a man of principle and of his family--two wives, five children, and many relatives sharing a small four-room house in this war ravaged city. But more than that, it is a rare look at contemporary life under Islam, where even after the Taliban's collapse, the women must submit to arranged marriages, polygamous husbands, and crippling limitations on their ability to travel, learn and communicate with others. [via]
The Bookshopby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0395869463 (0-395-86946-3)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bookshop'Book summary:Since 1977, Penelope Fitzgerald has been quietly coming out with small, perfect devastations of human hope and inhuman (i.e., all-too-human) behavior. And now we have the opportunity to read "The Bookshop," her tragicomedy of provincial manners first published in 1978 in the U.K., but never available in the U.S. The Bookshop unfolds in a tiny Sussex seaside town, which by 1959 is virtually cut off from the outside English world. Postwar peace and plenty having passed it by, Hardborough is defined chiefly by what it doesn't have. It does have, however, plenty of observant inhabitants, most of whom are keen to see Florence Green's new bookshop fail. But rising damp will not stop Florence, nor will the resident, malevolent poltergeist (or "rapper," in the local patois). Nor will she be thwarted by Violet Gamart, who has designs on Florence's building for her own arts series and will go to any lengths to get it. One of Florence's few allies (who is, unfortunately, a hermit) warns her: "She wants an Arts Centre. How can the arts have a centre? But she thinks they have, and she wishes to dislodge you."
Once the Old House Bookshop is up and running, Florence is subjected to the hilarious perils of running a subscription library, training a 10-year-old assistant, and obtaining the right merchandise for her customers. Men favor works "by former SAS men, who had been parachuted into Europe and greatly influenced the course of the war; they also placed orders for books by Allied commanders who poured scorn on the SAS men, and questioned their credentials." Women fight over a biography of Queen Mary. "This was in spite of the fact that most of them seemed to possess inner knowledge of the court--more, indeed, than the biographer." But it is only when the slippery Milo North suggests Florence sell the Olympia Press edition of "Lolita" that Florence comes under legal and political fire.
Fitzgerald's heroine divides people into "exterminators and exterminatees," a vision she clearly shares with her creator--but the author balances disillusion with grace, wit, and weirdness, favoring the open ending over the moral absolute. Penelope Fitzgerald's internecine if gentle world view even extends to literature--books are living, jostling things. Florence finds that paperbacks, crowding "the shelves in well-disciplined ranks," vie with Everyman editions, which "in their shabby dignity, seemed to confront them with a look of reproach." One senses that classic hardcovers would welcome The Bookshop, despite its status as a paperback original. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford And Heywood Hill 1952-1973by John Saumarez SmithISBN 0711225664 (0-7112-2566-4)
Softcover, Antique Collectors Club Ltd
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The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952v73by John Saumarez Smith, Heywood HillISBN 0711224528 (0-7112-2452-8)
Hardcover, Frances Lincoln Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952v73'Book summary:A brilliant personality, remarkable novelist and legendary letter writer, it is widely known that Nancy Mitford was also a bookseller. From 1942-6 she worked in Heywood Hill's famous shop in Curzon Street, and effectively ran it when the male staff were called up for war service. After the war she left to live in France but maintained an abiding interest in the shop, its stock, and its many and varied customers who themselves form a cavalcade of the literary stars of post war Britain. Her letters to Heywood advise on recent French titles that might appeal to him and his customers, gossip engagingly about life in Paris, and enquire anxiously about the reception of her own books while seeking advice about new titles to read. In return Heywood kept her up to date with customers and their foibles, and with aspects of literary and bookish life in London. Charming, witty and irresistible the correspondence gives brilliant insights into a world that has almost disappeared. [via]
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Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co.by Lynne TillmanISBN 0151004250 (0-15-100425-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co.'Book summary:Every few years a new book comes along that belongs to a select category one might label "the bookstore bio." Comprising such titles as Old Books, Rare Friends or 84 Charing Cross Road, these few, these happy few biographies are purportedly about the proprietors of a particular store. In reality, however, they are as much about the relationships booklovers forge as they are about books. Certainly this is true of The Bookstore, Lynne Tillman's entertaining history of a New York literary landmark, Books & Co. Founded in 1977 by IBM heiress Jeannette Watson, the shop became a legendary stomping ground for everyone from Woody Allen to Salman Rushdie. When it finally closed its doors in 1997 due to a rent dispute with the Whitney Museum, it was a blow felt by bibliophiles round the world.
Though Books & Co. is gone, its hold on the hearts of its admirers is still strong, and Tillman has had no trouble rounding up a slew of former patrons to sing its praises; the history is punctuated with anecdotes covering the full spectrum of bookstore life. John G. Hanhardt, describing Books & Co.'s philosophy section, remarks "I think of Books & Co. as a curated space," while sales rep Ed Solowitz wryly comments on the store's buying policies: "We don't even want to talk about returns. I tell people, I don't even watch election results because they say 'We're going to the returns.' I get very nervous. Returns, I get very nervous." The likes of Brendan Gill, Fran Liebowitz, Paul Auster, Amy Hempel, Susan Sontag, and many, many more writers and readers weigh in with their memories as well. And weaving in, out, and around these various reminiscences is Watson's personal account of her enterprise from its earliest inception to its final days. Books & Co. will be sorely missed; The Bookstore reminds us of why. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Bookstore Tourism: The Book Addict's Guide to Planning and Promoting Bookstore Road Trips for Bibliophiles and Other Bookshop Junkiesby Larry PortzlineISBN 0975893408 (0-9758934-0-8)
Softcover, Bookshop Junkie Press
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Box Office Poisonby Alex RobinsonISBN 1891830198 (1-891830-19-8)
Softcover, Top Shelf Productions
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Brooklyn Folliesby Paul AusterISBN 0312426232 (0-312-42623-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brooklyn Follies'Book summary:Nathan Glass ha sobrevivido a un cancer de pulmon y a un divorcio despues de 33 anos de matrimonio, y ha vuelto a Brooklyn, el lugar donde nacio y paso su infancia. Piensa escribir. Visita el bar del barrio y la libreria donde trabaja su sobrino. Descubre el protagonista que no ha regresado a Brooklyn a morir, sino a vivir. [via]
Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Booksby John Maxwell HamiltonISBN 0807125547 (0-8071-2554-7)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Cody's Books: The Life and Times of a Berkeley Bookstore, 1956-1977by Pat Cody, Fred CodyISBN 0811801403 (0-8118-0140-3)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Creating The Customer-driven Library: Building On The Bookstore Modelby Jeannette A. WoodwardISBN 0838908888 (0-8389-0888-8)
Softcover, Amer Library Assn
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A Diet to Die forby Joan HessISBN 0312981376 (0-312-98137-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Diet to Die for'Book summary:[via]Claire Malloy believes there is just one thing better than chocolate...and it's not jumping a round in an aerobics class. Nonetheless, she gets roped into accompanying a chubby heiress named Maribeth to Faberville, Arkansas's hottest new fitness center. Personally, Claire thinks the best way for Maribeth to lose 160 unnecessary pounds would be to dump her abusive husband. But while Claire's teenage daughter Caron unsuccessfully tries every fad diet she can find (as long as it doesn't mean cutting out pizza), Claire has to admit Maribeth's commitment to diet, workouts, and supplements is working...until things go horribly wrong. Besides becoming moonstruck over the big-muscled fitness instructor, Maribeth is acting loony outside the gym as well. And when she ends up "accidentally" dead, Claire starts to exercise her instincts for crime...and hunt for a killer. 
Ex Librisby Ross KingISBN 0802733573 (0-8027-3357-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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George Orwell Complete & UnabridgedISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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The Ghost And the Dead Man's Libraryby Alice KimberlyISBN 0425212653 (0-425-21265-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Haunted Bookshopby Christopher MorleyISBN 1426411170 (1-4264-1117-0)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Haunted Bookshop'Book summary:Comparison Of Cultures Of England And America By English Lad Who Emigrates To Maryland. [via]
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- The Haunted Bookshop: ISBN 1587155656 (1-58715-565-6)
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Hardcover, IndyPublish.com - The Haunted Bookshop: ISBN 1879923025 (1-879923-02-5)
Softcover, Booksellers Pub - The Haunted Bookshop: ISBN 1888173572 (1-888173-57-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square - The Haunted Bookshop: ISBN 0380626950 (0-380-62695-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Haunted Bookshop: ISBN 0785818251 (0-7858-1825-1)
Hardcover, Book Sales - The Haunted Bookshop: ISBN 1426411170 (1-4264-1117-0)
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The King's English: Adventures Of An Independent Booksellerby Betsy BurtonISBN 1423601246 (1-4236-0124-6)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kings English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller'Book summary:Betsy Burton, owner of The King's English bookstore in Salt Lake City, has been a bookseller for nearly thirty years, and a passionate book lover all her life. [via]
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La Sombra Del Viento/ the Shadow of the Windby Carlos Ruiz ZafonISBN 950491036X (950-49-1036-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Sombra Del Viento/ the Shadow of the Wind'Book summary:Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí encuentra La Sombra del Viento, un libro maldito que cambiará el rumbo de su vida y le arrastrará a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. Ambientada en la enigmática Barcelona de principios del siglo XX, este misterio literario mezcla técnicas de relato de intriga, de novela histórica y de comedia de costumbres, pero es, sobre todo, una tragedia histórica de amor cuyo eco se proyecta a través del tiempo. Con gran fuerza narrativa, el autor entrelaza tramas y enigmas a modo de muñecas rusas en un inolvidable relato sobre los secretos del corazón y el embrujo de los libros, manteniendo la intriga hasta la última página. [via]
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Literary Bookstores: A Cross-Country GuideISBN 0913734276 (0-913734-27-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Love Letterby Cathleen SchineISBN 0312426984 (0-312-42698-4)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Love Letter'Book summary:In the quaint New England town of Pequot--"an artists' colony without the artists"--a mystery unfolds in the form of a crumpled letter. Helen MacFarquhar, the divorced 42-year-old proprietor of Horatio Street Books, finds a torrid love note in a stack of mail. Creased oddly, without an accompanying envelope, addressed to "Goat" and signed "Ram," at first the letter only momentarily disrupts her routine. But Helen, usually in total control of her thoughts, can't seem to get it out of her head. Was it simply a postal error, or was it meant for her? Everyone who enters her store becomes a suspect, even her new summer employee, 20-year-old Johnny--whom she has paraded around the premises like "a turkey, perhaps, on a leash," introducing him with delighted condescension: "Look what I've got ... a college student."
Johnny is alternately fascinated and irritated by his boss, who relies on unabashed, highly skilled flirting as her fail-safe mechanism for closing a sale. We too are drawn in by Helen's seductive charm and savvy competency, so much so that we are as genuinely surprised as she is when her idle wonderings about Johnny become something more. What could this literary, lovely face that sells a thousand books see in a college boy, 22 years her junior?
Except for the duo's first embrace--precipitated by Helen's accidental hosing down of the hunky, shirtless undergrad--The Love Letter stays comfortably on this side of heaving-bosom romance novel. Humor reigns supreme here, as well as a warm nostalgia and thoughtful reflection on good old-fashioned letter writing: "Letters are so indiscreet, she thought. They're so exposed, so vulnerable, so naked--they're even worse than snapshots." Cathleen Schine's engaging fourth novel may even incite a few readers to forgo e-mail for the pleasant scrape of ink across paper. --Brangien Davis [via]
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Softcover, Signet - The Love Letter: ISBN 0452279488 (0-452-27948-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Love Letter: ISBN 0395689961 (0-395-68996-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Love Letter: ISBN 0783814518 (0-7838-1451-8)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - The Love Letter: ISBN 0312426984 (0-312-42698-4)
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A Moveable Feastby Ernest HemingwayISBN 068482499X (0-684-82499-X)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Moveable Feast'Book summary:In the preface to A Moveable Feast, Hemingway remarks casually that "if the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction"--and, indeed, fact or fiction, it doesn't matter, for his slim memoir of Paris in the 1920s is as enchanting as anything made up and has become the stuff of legend. Paris in the '20s! Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, lived happily on $5 a day and still had money for drinks at the Closerie des Lilas, skiing in the Alps, and fishing trips to Spain. On every corner and at every café table, there were the most extraordinary people living wonderful lives and telling fantastic stories. Gertrude Stein invited Hemingway to come every afternoon and sip "fragrant, colorless alcohols" and chat admit her great pictures. He taught Ezra Pound how to box, gossiped with James Joyce, caroused with the fatally insecure Scott Fitzgerald (the acid portraits of him and his wife, Zelda, are notorious). Meanwhile, Hemingway invented a new way of writing based on this simple premise: "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."
Hemingway beautifully captures the fragile magic of a special time and place, and he manages to be nostalgic without hitting any false notes of sentimentality. "This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy," he concludes. Originally published in 1964, three years after his suicide, A Moveable Feast was the first of his posthumous books and remains the best. --David Laskin [via]
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Murder Between the Coversby Elaine VietsISBN 0451210816 (0-451-21081-6)
Softcover, Signet
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The New Book Lover's Guide to Chicagoland: Including Southern Wisconsinby Lane Phalen, Lane Book Lover's Guide to Chicagoland PhalenISBN 1880339110 (1-880339-11-0)
Softcover, Brigadoon Bay Books
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Overheard at the Bookstoreby Judith HenryISBN 0789305186 (0-7893-0518-6)
Hardcover, Universe Publishing
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The Overnightby Ramsey CampbellISBN 0765351536 (0-7653-5153-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Paris Era Una Fiestaby Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel FerraterISBN 9871144377 (987-1144-37-7)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Parnassus on Wheelsby Christopher MorleyISBN 1587155915 (1-58715-591-5)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parnassus on Wheels'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. [via]
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Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - Parnassus on Wheels: ISBN 1587155923 (1-58715-592-3)
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Rebel Bookseller: How To Improvise Your Own Indie STore And Beat Back The Chainsby Andrew LatiesISBN 0975276344 (0-9752763-4-4)
Softcover, Drench Kiss Media Corp
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Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling And the Culture of Consumptionby Laura J. MillerISBN 0226525910 (0-226-52591-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Secret of Lost Things: Library Editionby Sheridan HayISBN 038551848X (0-385-51848-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Seeing Shelley Plainby Robert A. WilsonISBN 1584560509 (1-58456-050-9)
Hardcover, Oak Knoll Pr
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The Seven Stairsby Stuart BrentISBN 0671673947 (0-671-67394-7)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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The Shadow of the Wind: A Novelby Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Lucia GravesISBN 1594200106 (1-59420-010-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Barcelona, 1945just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mothers face. To console his only child, Daniels widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelonas guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniels father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Caraxs work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelonas darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. And before long he realizes that if he doesnt find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.
As with all astounding novels, The Shadow of the Wind sends the mind groping for comparisons The Crimson Petal and the White? The novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte? Of Victor Hugo? Love in the Time of Cholera?but in the end, as with all astounding novels, no comparison can suffice. As one leading Spanish reviewer wrote, The originality of Ruiz Zafóns voice is bombproof and displays a diabolical talent. The Shadow of the Wind announces a phenomenon in Spanish literature. An uncannily absorbing historical mystery, a heart-piercing romance, and a moving homage to the mystical power of books, The Shadow of the Wind is a triumph of the storytellers art.More editions of The Shadow of the Wind: A Novel:
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Shakespeare and Companyby Sylvia BeachISBN 0803260970 (0-8032-6097-0)
Softcover, Bison Books
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Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstoresby Greg KotterISBN 1892058057 (1-892058-05-7)
Hardcover, Dreamhaven Bks & Art
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Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, And Other Page-turning Adventures From A Year In A Bookstoreby Suzanne Strempek SheaISBN 0807072591 (0-8070-7259-1)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, And Other Page-turning Adventures From A Year In A Bookstore'Book summary:Suzanne Shea has always loved a good book-and she's written five of them, all acclaimed. In the course of her ten-year career, she's done a good bit of touring, including readings and drop-ins at literally hundreds of bookstores. She never visited one that wasn't memorable.
Two years ago, while recovering from radiation therapy, Shea heard from a friend who was looking for help at her bookstore. Shea volunteered, seeing it as nothing more than a way to get out of her pajamas and back into the world. But over next twelve months, from St. Patrick's Day through Poetry Month, graduation/Father's Day/summer reading/Christmas and back again to those shamrock displays, Shea lived and breathed books in a place she says sells'ideas, stories, encouragement, answers, solace, validation, the basic ammunition for daily life.' Her work was briefly interrupted by an author tour that took her to other great bookstores. Descriptions of these and her memories of book-lined rooms reaching all the way back to childhood visits to the Bookmobile are scattered throughout this charming, humorous, and engrossing account of reading and rejuvenation.
For anyone who loves books, and especially for anyone who has fallen under the spell of a special bookstore, Shelf Life will be required reading. [via]More editions of Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, And Other Page-turning Adventures From A Year In A Bookstore:
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Shelf Monkeyby Corey RedekopISBN 1550227661 (1-55022-766-1)
Softcover, E C W Pr
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Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Booksby Paul CollinsISBN 1582344043 (1-58234-404-3)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books'Book summary:A bibliophile's pilgrimage to where book lovers go when they die-Hay-on-Wye.[via]
Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the little cobblestone village of Hay-on-Wye, the 'Town of Books' that boasts fifteen hundress inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Antiquarian bookstores, no less.
Hay's newest citizens accordingly take up residence in a sixteenth-century apartment over a bookstore, meeting the village's large population of misfits and bibliomaniacs by working for world-class eccentric Richard Booth-the self-declared King of Hay, owner of the local castle, and proprietor of the world's largest and most chaotic used book warren. A useless clerk, Paul delights in shifting dusty stacks of books around and sifting them for ancient gems like Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable, Confessions of an Author's Wife, and I Was Hitler's Maid. He also duly fulfills his new duty as a citizen by simultaneously applying to be a Peer in the House of Lords and attempting to buy Sixpence House, a beautiful and neglected old tumbledown pub for sale in the town's center.
Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of his own book, Sixpence House becomes a meditation on what books means to us, and how their meaning can still resonate long after they have been abandoned by their public. Even as he's writing, the knowledge of where his work will eventually end up-rubbing bindings with the rest of the books that time forgot-is a curious kind of comfort.More editions of Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books:
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The Thirteenth Taleby Diane SetterfieldISBN 158547892X (1-58547-892-X)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thirteenth Tale'Book summary:Settle down to enjoy a rousing good ghost story with Diane Setterfield's debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale. Setterfield has rejuvenated the genre with this closely plotted, clever foray into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies, and half-truths. She never cheats by pulling a rabbit out of a hat; this atmospheric story hangs together perfectly.
There are two heroines here: Vida Winter, a famous author, whose life story is coming to an end, and Margaret Lea, a young, unworldly, bookish girl who is a bookseller in her father's shop. Vida has been confounding her biographers and fans for years by giving everybody a different version of her life, each time swearing it's the truth. Because of a biography that Margaret has written about brothers, Vida chooses Margaret to tell her story, all of it, for the first time. At their initial meeting, the conversation begins:
"You have given nineteen different versions of your life story to journalists in the last two years alone."
She [Vida] shrugged. "It's my profession. I'm a storyteller."
"I am a biographer, I work with facts."
The game is afoot and Margaret must spend some time sorting out whether or not Vida is actually ready to tell the whole truth. There is more here of Margaret discovering than of Vida cooperating wholeheartedly, but that is part of Vida's plan. The transformative power of truth informs the lives of both women by story's end, and The Thirteenth Tale is finally and convincingly told. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.by Jeremy MercerISBN 0312347405 (0-312-34740-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Yarrowby Charles De LintISBN 0312863934 (0-312-86393-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Cat Midhir had made a reputation as the author of popular fantasy novels. But the secret that her fans didn't know was that her Otherworld was no fantasy. Then, one night, a thief stole her dreams. Since then, she's been trapped in the everyday. And the Others are coming to find her...
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshopby Lewis BuzbeeISBN 1555974503 (1-55597-450-3)
Hardcover, Graywolf Press
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November, a dark, rainy Tuesday, late afternoon. This is my ideal time to be in a bookstore. The shortened light of the afternoon and the idleness and hush of the hour gather everything close, the shelves and the books and the few other customers who graze head-bent in the narrow aisles. I've come to find a book.
In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Buzbee, a former bookseller and sales representative, celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore--the smell and touch of books, getting lost in the deep canyons of shelves, and the silent community of readers. He shares his passion for books, which began with ordering through The Weekly Reader in grade school. Interwoven throughout is a
fascinating historical account of the bookseller's trade--from the great Alexandria library with an estimated one million papyrus scrolls to Sylvia Beach's famous Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, which led to the extraordinary effort to publish and sell James Joyce's Ulysses during the 1920s.
Rich with anecdotes, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop is the perfect choice for those who relish the enduring pleasures of spending an afternoon finding just the right book.More editions of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop:
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LA Sombra Del Vientoby Carlos Ruiz ZafonISBN 8408052527 (84-08-05252-7)
Hardcover, GeoPlaneta, Editorial, S. A.
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La Sombra Del Viento / The Shadow Of The Windby Carlos Zafon RuizISBN 8408043641 (84-08-04364-1)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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La Sombra Del Viento/ the Shadow of the Windby Carlos Ruiz ZafonISBN 0974872407 (0-9748724-0-7)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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