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Barcode30293102399859
StatusIn Processing
LocationClark County
Call No381.45 Pett
TitleThe bookshop : a history of bookselling from the dawn of print to the twenty-first century / Andrew Pettegree.
AuthorPettegree, Andrew, author.
CollectionNF
Total Circ0
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102399859381.45 Pett10/29/2026 In Processing 

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781541607279 (hardback)
International Standard Book Number 1541607279 (hardback)
Personal Name Pettegree, Andrew, author.
Title Statement The bookshop : a history of bookselling from the dawn of print to the twenty-first century / Andrew Pettegree.
Edition Statement First US edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Basic Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2026.
Physical Description 311 pages : illustrations, 25 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-289) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Prologue: Mr Pepys goes shopping -- Part I: A new age of knowledge. Printer, publisher, bookseller, bankrupt ; Imminent danger ; Shopkeepers, at last ; Roll out your barrow ; Flying without wings ; Old books and deep pockets -- Part II: Expanding horizons. The railway age ; Feast or famine ; The great disruptors ; Communities of interest ; Chain gang ; Apocalypse not yet -- Postscript: Aye aye.
Summary, Etc. "The Bookshop tells a sweeping history of the bookstore. It celebrates the ingenuity of booksellers, from the smugglers who carried contraband books across borders, to the innovators who created the global distribution networks that define books and bookselling today. Even though few bookshops lasted more than a few years during the best of times, booksellers relentlessly sought new ways to get books to readers. Innovators like the squabbling dealers who invented the secondhand bookstore, or Victorian capitalists like W. H. Smith, who built an empire of railroad station book stalls to serve idle passengers, made bookselling what it is today."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Books and reading History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Bookstores.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Book industries and trade History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Bookstores History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Booksellers and bookselling History.
Index Term-Genre/Form Illustrated works.

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