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Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Smaller 8vo. pp. 182, ""When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982, he had no idea the visit would change his life. He walked in as a psychiatric counselor and walked out as the store's new owner. In The Last Bookseller, Goodman describes his…
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- Title The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade
- Author Gary Goodman
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Minnesota Press
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9781517912574 / 1517912571
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Goodman, Gary, Antiquarian booksellers - Minnesota
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021025898
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Hardback. New. A wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade during its last Golden Age When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982, he had no idea the visit would change his life. He walked in as a psychiatric counselor and walked out as the store's new owner. In The Last Bookseller Goodman describes his sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious career as a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota-the early struggles, the travels to estate sales and book fairs, the remarkable finds, and the bibliophiles, forgers, book thieves, and book hoarders he met along the way. Here we meet the infamous St. Paul Book Bandit, Stephen Blumberg, who stole 24,000 rare books worth more than fifty million dollars; John Jenkins, the Texas rare book dealer who (probably) was murdered while standing in the middle of the Colorado River; and the eccentric Melvin McCosh, who filled his dilapidated Lake Minnetonka mansion with half…
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