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Rare and modern books

Collins, Paul

Sixpence House: Lost in A Town Of Books

Bloomsbury USA, 2004

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Year of publication
2004
ISBN
1582344043
Place of printing
New York
Author
Collins, Paul
Publishers
Bloomsbury USA
Keyword
BOOK SELLING HAY ON WYE RICHARD BOOTH
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

"A bibliophile's pilgrimage to where book lovers go when they die-Hay-on-Wye. Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the little cobblestone village of Hay-on-Wye, the 'Town of Books' that boasts fifteen hundress inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Antiquarian bookstores, no less. Hay's newest citizens accordingly take up residence in a sixteenth-century apartment over a bookstore, meeting the village's large population of misfits and bibliomaniacs by working for world-class eccentric Richard Booth-the self-declared King of Hay, owner of the local castle, and proprietor of the world's largest and most chaotic used book warren." 246p.

Edizione: first pbk.ed.