1 option
A factotum in the book trade : a memoir / Marius Kociejowski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kociejowski, Marius, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kociejowski, Marius.
- Kociejowski, Marius--Childhood and youth.
- Booksellers and bookselling--England--Biography.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Booksellers and bookselling--England--London.
- Book industries and trade--Employees--Biography.
- Book industries and trade.
- Book industries and trade--England--London.
- Book industries and trade--Employees.
- England.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 349 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2022]
- Summary:
- "A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves--and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favourite neighbourhood bookshop. From his childhood in rural Ontario, where at the village jumble sale he bought poetry volumes for their pebbled-leather covers alone, to his all-but-accidental entrance into the trade in London and the career it turned into, poet and travel writer Marius Kociejowski recounts his life among the buyers, sellers, customers, and literary nobility--the characters, fictional and not--who populate these places we all love. Cataloging their passions and pleasures, oddities and obsessions, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey through their lives, and a story of the serendipities and collisions of fate, the mundane happenings and indelible encounters, the friendships, feuds, losses, and elations that characterize the business of books--and, inevitably, make up an unforgettable life."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: A Floating World
- The Road I'd Later Take
- A Giraffe in Edinburgh Zoo
- The Pope of Long Acre
- A Paragon of Seedy Exactitude
- Hawks and Magpies
- The Testainess of The Collector
- The Testainess of Charlotte B.
- The Disembowelling of Phantoms
- Black Mischief and Subterfuge
- The Square Root of Obsession
- Is Goldilocks Jewish?
- The Man Collecting names
- The Polish for Goodbye.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kociejowski, Marius. Factotum in the book trade.
- ISBN:
- 9781771964562
- 1771964561
- OCLC:
- 1245345939
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.