The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

By Oliver Darkshire

Favorite quote: “Any respectable OLD bookshop comes with a few mysteries and curses baked into the foundations.”

From the publisher: Welcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, poisoned books, and some things that aren’t even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice. By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a Tome is the colorful story of life in one of the world’s oldest bookshops (est. 1761) and a love letter to the benign, unruly world of antiquarian bookselling, where to be uncommon or strange is the best possible compliment.

Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 inches

256 pages, Hardcover