Once Upon a Tome: The misadventures of a rare bookseller Tapa dura -

Paperback. Very Good.

Bantam Press. J37 2022, hardcover with dust jacket, good copy

Bantam Press, 2022. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 256 pages. 8.82x5.75x1.06 inches.

Hardback. New.

London, England: London, UK: Bantam, 2022, 1st Edition, Later Printing, 2022. ----------( later Printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Fine example, in a Fine dustjacket, 244pages, b&w illustrations, ---" Welcome to Sotheran's, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabelled 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 on Sackville Street (est. 1761) to interview for their bookselling apprenticeship, a decision which has bedevilled him ever since. ---He'd intended to stay for a year before launching into some less dusty, better remunerated career. Unfortunately for him, the alluring smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap proved irresistible. Soon he was balancing teetering stacks of first editions, fending off… Leer más

New York: Bantam Books, 2022. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Rohan Eason. 244 pages; 5 1/2 x 8 3/4" "Interspersed with several diverting footnotes of a comical nature..." Jacket spine edges are lightly bumped, jacket spine is slightly sun-faded; now in mylar sleeve.