| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
349 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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 loneliness of the collector -- The testament 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 -- Coda -- Acknowledgements. |
| 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. |
| Form |
Issued also in electronic format. |
| Subject |
Kociejowski, Marius.
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Kociejowski, Marius -- Childhood and youth.
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Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- Biography.
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Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- London.
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Book industries and trade -- Employees -- Biography.
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Book industries and trade -- England -- London.
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Authors, Canadian (English) -- Biography.
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Kociejowski, Marius. (OCoLC)fst01486437
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Book industries and trade. (OCoLC)fst00836171
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Book industries and trade -- Employees.
(OCoLC)fst00836183
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Booksellers and bookselling. (OCoLC)fst00836492
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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England -- London.
(OCoLC)fst01204271
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiography. (DNLM)D020493
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Kociejowski, Marius. Factotum in the book trade. Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2022 177196457X 9781771964579 (OCoLC)1280418966 |
| ISBN |
9781771964562 paperback |
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1771964561 paperback |
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9781771964579 electronic book |
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