Late Booking : My First Twenty-Five Years in the Secondhand Book Trade.

Published by Frantic Press, Old Knowle, first edition, 1989, 1989

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Cloth, 8vo, 199 pp, ills. A very enjoyable account of pre-internet bookdealing from a highly experienced practitioner. "Written on a sabbatical in Greece in 1983/4, Late Booking covers the career up to that point of one of the most assiduous secondhand booksellers since the last war. Paul Minet has struggled for 25 years, with very varied success, to recreate the browsing bookshops he loved as a boy. Whether 'running' books from shop to shop in the West Country, dozing behind market bookstalls, up to his armpits in old books in an unlit cinema in Ilfracombe or running one of the largest bookshops in London, the author is the perennial optimist in his chosen field. Most people have at one time or another fancied running a small bookshop. Late Booking is essential reading for anyone who is seriously considering doing so. To all those others who only dream, it is the perfect antidote, a way to participate in all the rush and excitement of the author's numerous adventures without actually risking anything oneself. Paul Minet was the founder of the 'Antiquarian Book Monthly Review' and has contributed a widely read column to its pages for the past fifteen years. As well as the definitive account of this venture, Late Booking includes an important chapter on his spell as Managing Editor of 'The New Daily' and a major account of Richard Booth, the 'King' of Hay-on-Wye and a friend and rival for many years. Dozens of other booksellers, be they born dealers, wild eccentrics or quiet intellectuals, also flit through these pages. Late Booking is bound to become one of the classic works in a field which has not seen many detailed memoirs this century. " Top edge spotted, otherwise Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.…

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Title
Late Booking : My First Twenty-Five Years in the Secondhand Book Trade.
Author
Minet, P.
Publisher
Frantic Press, Old Knowle, first edition, 1989
Publication year
1989
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Dust Jacket Included
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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Wykeham Books

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