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A light-hearted, anecdotal history of Foyles published to celebrate the shop's Centenary. It is one hundred years since brothers William and Gilbert Foyle embarked on an enterprise that was to become the world's greatest bookshop.
Every bookshop has a story 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 ...
The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity, associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and economic roles of independent bookstores, and it considers how eight shops founded during the modernist era provided distinctive spaces of literary production that exceeded and yet never escaped their commercial functions. As the contributors show, these booksellers were essential institutional players in literary networks. When the eight shops examined first opened their doors, their relevance to literary and commercial life was taken for granted. In our current context of box stores, online shopping, and ebooks, we no longer encounter the book as we did as recently as twenty years ago. By contributing to our understanding of bookshops as unique social spaces on the thresholds of commerce and culture, this volume helps to lay the groundwork for comprehending how our relationship to books and literature has been and will be affected by the physical changes to the reading experience taking place in the twenty-first century.
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Going home sucks, especially when it's for your best friend's funeral. Tom left Chicago thinking he was just going to go to a funeral, little did he know his past was going to come to haunt him and possibly take him down a dangerous path.
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Issues for Feb. 1933- include the monthly book circle bulletin (formerly the Book of the month bulletin). The same material issued also by James Thin or Henry Sotheran, ltd. as: Books of the month (with which is incorporated "The Book index monthly") but omitting the monthly book circle bulletin.