The yellow-lighted bookshop
Subtitle: a memoir, a history
By: Lewis Buzbee.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: St. Paul, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781555974503
Subjects: Buzbee, Lewis, -- 1957-; Booksellers and bookselling -- United States -- Biography.; Book industries and trade -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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 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."--Jacket.