The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What
happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of
human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think
it’s because of books, what they are, what they release in
ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our
desires. 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.
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