The yellow-lighted bookshop
a memoir, a history
by Lewis Buzbee
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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.
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The yellow-lighted bookshop: a memoir, a history
2008, Graywolf Press
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Ru guo ni ai shang yi jia shu dian
2007, Ying shu Gaiman Qundao shang wang lu yu shu gu fen you xian gong si Taiwan fen gong si
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
May 30, 2006, Graywolf Press
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