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.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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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. |
