Title: The yellow-lighted bookshop
Subtitle: a memoir, a history
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 an 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 effort to publish and sell James Joyce's Ulysses during the 1920s.
Subjects: Booksellers and bookselling, Anecdotes, History, Book industries and trade, Bookstores, Biography, Booksellers and bookselling, biography, Booksellers and bookselling, history
Places: United States
People: Lewis Buzbee (1957-)
Time periods: 1920's