The Bookshop Book

Campbell, Jen

ISBN 10: 1472116666 / ISBN 13: 9781472116666

Published by Constable / Constable & Robinson Ltd, London, 2014

About this Item

First edition, first impression. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'To Kathryn, who loves bookshops more than anything. Jen Campbell'. Some minuscule edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some very slight yellowing to page block, not price clipped (£12.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 273pp, illustrated. We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books. We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run down train stations. Fold out bookshops, undercover bookshops. Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France, meet Sebastien in Mongolia, who sells books to herders of the Altai mountains, meet the bookshop in Canada that's invented the world's first antiquarian book vending machine. And that's just the beginning. From the oldest bookshop in the world, to the smallest you could imagine, 'The Bookshop Book' examines the history of books, talks to authors about their favourite places, and looks at over two hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadly, we've yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole). 'The Bookshop Book' is a love letter to bookshops all around the world. Scarce signed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bookshop Book
• Publisher: Constable / Constable & Robinson Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472116666
• ISBN 13: 9781472116666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Jacket by Leo Nickolls
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.

We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I've-ever-been-to-bookshops.

Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastien, in Mongolia, who sells books to herders of the Altai mountains; meet the bookshop in Canada that's invented the world's first antiquarian book vending machine.

And that's just the beginning.

From the oldest bookshop in the world, to the smallest you could imagine, The Bookshop Book examines the history of books, talks to authors about their favourite places, and looks at over three hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadly, we've yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole).

The Bookshop Book is a love letter to bookshops all around the world.

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"A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference."

David Almond
(The Bookshop Book includes interviews and quotes from David Almond, Ian Rankin, Tracy Chevalier, Audrey Niffenegger, Jacqueline Wilson, Jeanette Winterson and many, many others.)

About the Author

JEN CAMPBELL grew up in the northeast of England, and graduated from Edinburgh University with an MA in English Literature. She is a published poet and short-story writer. She lives in north London where she works at Ripping Yarns bookshop.