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\n AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<\/p>\n

“A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category.” \u2014The New York Times<\/p>\n

“It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book.”
\u2014Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author and owner of Books Are Magic<\/p>\n

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations<\/p>\n

Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They nurture local communities while creating new ones of their own. Bookshops are powerful spaces, but they are also endangered ones. In The Bookshop,we see the stakes: what has been, and what might be lost.<\/p>\n

Evan Friss\u2019s history of the bookshop draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at this institution beloved by so many. The story begins with Benjamin Franklin\u2019s first bookstore in Philadelphia and takes us to a range of booksellers including the Strand, Chicago\u2019s Marshall Field & Company, the Gotham Book Mart, specialty stores like Oscar Wilde and Drum and Spear, sidewalk sellers of used books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon Books, and Parnassus. The Bookshop is also a history of the leading figures in American bookselling, often impassioned eccentrics, and a history of how books have been marketed and sold over the course of more than two centuries\u2014including, for example, a 3,000-pound elephant who signed books at Marshall Field\u2019s in 1944.<\/p>\n

The Bookshop is a love letter to bookstores, a charming chronicle for anyone who cherishes these sanctuaries of literature, and essential reading to understand how these vital institutions have shaped American life\u2014and why we still need them.

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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Viking (August 6, 2024)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Hardcover \u200f : \u200e 416 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0593299922
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0593299920
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 2.31 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 6.21 x 1.27 x 9.25 inches <\/p>\n

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