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03034aam a2200445 i 4500 001 53BBAAE0447311EDBB956A3F21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221005010052 008 210407s2022 onc b 000 0aeng 020 $a 1771964561 020 $a 9781771964562 035 $a (OCoLC)1245345939 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d MTG $d OCLCF $d VP@ $d OCLCO $d MNN $d LGG $d YDX $d OJ4 $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a e-uk-en 050 4 $a Z280 $b .K63 2022 055 0 $a Z280 $b .K63 2022 082 04 $a 381/.45002092 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Kociejowski, Marius, $e author. 245 12 $a A factotum in the book trade : $b a memoir / $c Marius Kociejowski. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Windsor, Ontario : $b Biblioasis, $c [2022] 300 $a 349 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 00 $t Acknowledgements. $t The road I'd later take -- $t A giraffe in Edinburgh zoo -- $t The pope of long acre -- $t A paragon of seedy exactitude -- $t Hawks and magpies -- $t The loneliness of the collector -- $t The testament of Charlotte B. -- $t The disembowelling of phantoms -- $t Black mischief and subterfuge -- $t The square root of obsession -- $t Is Goldilocks Jewish? -- $t The man collecting names -- $t The polish for goodbye -- $t Coda -- $t Acknowledgements. 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 600 10 $a Kociejowski, Marius. 600 10 $a Kociejowski, Marius $x Childhood and youth. 650 0 $a Booksellers and bookselling $z England $v Biography. 650 0 $a Booksellers and bookselling $z London. $z London. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $x Employees $v Biography. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $z London. $z London. 650 0 $a Autobiographies. 752 $a Canada $b Ontario $d Windsor 941 $a 1 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20221005021815.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=53BBAAE0447311EDBB956A3F21ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search