Footnotes* from the world's greatest bookstores
Subtitle: *true tales and lost moments from book buyers, booksellers, and book lovers
By: Bob Eckstein ; foreword by Garrison Keillor
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780553459272
Subjects: Themes, motives; Bookstores; Bookstores in art; Anecdotes
Description: "From beloved New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein, Footnotes from the Worlds Greatest Bookstores invites you into the heart and soul of every community: the local bookshop, each with its own quirks, charms, and legendary stories,"--Amazon.com.

Eckstein has collected brief anecdotes about bookstores from across the globe, and accompanied each with a painting of the building, store front, or mobile unit. Each two page spread captures our lifelong love affair with books, bookstores, and book-sellers.