The yellow-lighted bookshop a memoir, a history
Using his retail experience as a point of departure, Lewis Buzbee gives readers a guided tour of the book business from the ancients to today. As much a history of bookstores as a meditation on the reading life, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop speaks to the book lover in all of us.
| Main Author: | Buzbee, Lewis, 1957- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
St. Paul, Minn. :
Graywolf Press,
[2008]
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| Summary: |
Using his retail experience as a point of departure, Lewis Buzbee gives readers a guided tour of the book business from the ancients to today. As much a history of bookstores as a meditation on the reading life, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop speaks to the book lover in all of us. |
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| Item Description: |
Originally published: 2006. |
| Physical Description: |
225 pages ; 18 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781555975104 1555975100 |
| Author Notes: |
Lewis Buzbee is a former bookseller and sales representative, and the author of several books, most recently Steinbeck's Ghost . He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter. |