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London and the modernist bookshop
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ISBN: 1108769853 1108855199 1108708692 9781108855198 9781108769853 9781108708692 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The modernist bookshop, best exemplified by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. and Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop, has received scant attention outside these more prominent examples. This writing will review how bookshops like David Archer's on Parton Street (London) in the 1930s were sites of distribution, publication, and networking. Parton Street, which also housed Lawrence & Wishart publishers and a briefly vibrant literary scene, will be approached from several contexts as a way of situating the modernist bookshop within both the book trade and the literary communities which it interacted with and made possible.


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Fantasies of the Bookstore
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ISBN: 110864600X 110844539X 1108570542 1108683576 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press,

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This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in 1917 have been identified. The study borrows the concept of 'meaningful locations' from the field of human geography to assess fictional bookstores as narrative events rather than static backgrounds. As a meaningful location, the bookstore creates the potential for events that can occur both within the place of the store and in the wider space within which it functions. Elements of the narrative space include its spatio-temporal location, its locale or composition, and the events which these elements generate to define the bookstore's sense of place.


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ISBN: 9781108445399 9781108646000 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in 1917 have been identified. The study borrows the concept of 'meaningful locations' from the field of human geography to assess fictional bookstores as narrative events rather than static backgrounds. As a meaningful location, the bookstore creates the potential for events that can occur both within the place of the store and in the wider space within which it functions. Elements of the narrative space include its spatio-temporal location, its locale or composition, and the events which these elements generate to define the bookstore's sense of place.


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Uit liefde in boeken : Vijftien schrijvers op zoek naar een boekhandel.
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ISBN: 9789029565981 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam : De Arbeiderspers,

Le commerce du livre en France : entre économie et culture
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ISBN: 2738468810 Year: 1998 Volume: *2 Publisher: Paris Montréal L'Harmattan


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Radical chapters
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ISBN: 0815650833 9780815650836 9780815610069 0815610068 Year: 2012 Publisher: Syracuse, New York

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Long a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler's Books and Magazines is one of the most well-known independent bookstores in American history. When owner Roy Kepler opened the store in 1955 he changed the book industry forever as a pioneer in the "paperback revolution." The notion of selling texts in inexpensive paperbound volumes was revolutionary in the publishing trade and Kepler's focus on stocking these inexpensive books put him at the forefront of the movement. Paperback-selling was not the only revolution Kepler supported, however. In Radical Chapters, Doyle sheds light on Kepler's remarkable contributions not only to the book industry but also to pacifism. Recalling the tumultuous politics of the last century, he highlights Kepler's achievements in advocating radical pacifism during World War II, anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War era, and the anti-Vietnam War movement. During those decades, Kepler's Books played an integral role, creating a community and space to exchange ideas for such notable figures as Jerry Garica, Joan Baez, and Stewart Brand. Doyle's fascinating chronicle captures the man who inspired that community and offers a moving tribute to his legacy.

The bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill, 1952-73
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ISBN: 0711224528 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Lincoln


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Histoire de la librairie française
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ISBN: 9782765409663 2765409668 Year: 2008 Publisher: Paris: Éd. du Cercle de la librairie,

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Une histoire de la librairie en France de 1810 à nos jours. Au XIXe siècle, la librairie se sépare de l'édition et se libère de la surveillance de l'Etat. Au XXe siècle, la profession s'organise, avant de se trouver confrontée à de nouveaux enjeux et de nouveaux concurrents.

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