| Description |
248 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword: Paper towns -- New York City. The Strand ; Spoonbill & Sugartown ; Dashwood Books ; Rizzoli ; Books are Magic -- San Francisco. City Lights Bookstore ; Green Apple Books ; William Stout Books ; Dog Eared Books -- Pennsylvania. Baldwin's Book Barn -- London. Maggs Bros. ; Heywood Hill ; John Sandoe Books ; Hurlingham Books ; Gay's the Word ; Daunt Books ; Persephone Books ; Tate Modern Shop ; London Review Bookshop ; Lutyens & Rubinstein ; Word on the Water -- Amsterdam. MENDO -- Maastricht. Boekhandel Dominicanen -- Paris. Bouquinistes ; Librairie Auguste Blaizot ; Shakespeare and Company -- Cologne. Buchhandlung Walther König -- Düsseldorf. Booxycle -- Heidelberg. artes liberales -- Hamburg. Felix Jud ; stories! -- Berlin. Bücherbogen ; Pro qm ; do you read me?! ; Bildband -- Munich. soda ; Literatur Moths -- Vienna. phil ; Hartliebs Bücher ; AnzenbergerGallery ; Anna Jeller Buchhandlung ; Métamorphose -- Lisbon. Livraria Ferin ; Almedina Rato -- Porto. Livraria Lello ; Livraria Académica. |
| Summary |
"Bookstores are treasure troves of knowledge and ideas, invaluable for the imagination, and often reflect their owners' personalities in ways internet behemoths could never re-create. In this book, photographer Horst A. Friedrichs opens the door to the world of bricks-and-mortar bookstores, showcasing their variety, quirkiness, and vitality with lavish photography. It celebrates the passion and commitment of the owners with interviews and anecdotes. Explore William Stout Books, a specialty store for architecture and art books in San Francisco, and Baldwin's Book Barn in Pennsylvania, a 5-story bookstore housed in a dairy barn open since the mid-1940s. Discover Gay's the Word, the UK's first and only dedicated LGBTQI bookshop and Livraria Lello, whose Art Deco interior is a temple to reading in the middle of Porto, Portugal. Some of the featured bookstores specialize in a certain genre, some are massive with vaulted ceilings, some are tiny and filled to the brim with books, some are in historic buildings that evoke a different time and place, and some are brand new, hightech, architect-designed spaces. What all the bookstores have in common is that they are all dedicated to spreading the written word to their communities." -- Amazon.com. |
| Language |
Text in English, some text translated from the German. |
| Subject |
Bookstores.
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Bookstores -- Pictorial works.
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Books and reading.
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Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00836454
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Bookstores. (OCoLC)fst00836517
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| Genre/Form |
Illustrated works. (OCoLC)fst01423873
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Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
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Illustrated works.
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| Added Author |
Friedrichs, Horst A., 1966- photographer.
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Krug, Nora, writer of foreword.
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Sykes, John, 1956- translator.
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| Other Form: |
9783791385808 German edition |
| ISBN |
9783791385815 (hardcover) |
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379138581X (hardcover) |
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