Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell - 2020

Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2020 David R. Godine, Boston, MA. 2020. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; bumping to head and tail; soiling to boards; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good +; ; NOT Price Clipped ($25.95); shelfwear to had, tail, and tips; light wear to flap folds and spine shoulders. Blue paper over boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. Brown endpapers. 321 pp 8vo.This is the story of the book business as it is practiced in The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, in the largest second-hand bookshop in the country. This book is sardonic and sympathetic in equal measure as it charts the highs and lows of a year in the life of a charmingly cantankerous bookseller whose passion for books and his community outweigh his disdain for dimwitted customers. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.