TY  - BOOK
AU  - Darkshire,Oliver
TI  - Once upon a tome: the misadventures of a rare bookseller, wherein the theory of the profession is partially explained, with a variety of insufficient examples, 
SN  - 9781324092070
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Darkshire, Oliver.
KW  - Henry Sotheran Ltd
KW  - Antiquarian booksellers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Booksellers and bookselling
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N1  - A note from the author's supervisor -- Introduction: The bookseller's apprentice -- Antiquarian & general -- Art & architecture -- Travel & exploration -- Natural history -- Modern first editions -- Appendix: Bookshop: the game
N2  - "Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store's resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram). By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a Tome is the colorful story of life in one of the world's oldest bookshops and a love letter to the benign, unruly world of antiquarian bookselling, where to be uncommon or strange is the best possible compliment"--
ER  -