Independent Bookstore

6 books

Shakespeare and Company cover
Rating 3.9
Shakespeare and Company Sylvia Beach Yilin Press · 2014 This is a bookshop history written by a bookseller, and also a rare firsthand record of twentieth-century literary life. Beach was no bystander: she p…
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Rating 3.8
The Good Bookstore Jeff Deutsch Yilin Press · 2025 This is not a how-to manual for opening a bookstore but a gentle defense of them. Jeff Deutsch, who spent a decade at the helm of the Seminary Co-op B…
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Impressions of Beijing Bookstores 严彬 / 解玺璋 Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2016 Impressions of Beijing Bookstores, edited by Yan Bin, editor-in-chief of Phoenix Net's reading channel, was published by Central Compilation & Transla…
A Tour of Tokyo's Independent Bookstores cover
Rating 3.4
A Tour of Tokyo's Independent Bookstores 吉井忍 Zhejiang Publishing United Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. · 2014 Tokyo's Independent Bookstores is a collection of long-form bookstore interviews that Chinese-language writer Yoshii Shinobu, a Japanese national, ori…
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop cover
Rating 3.9
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop 黄宝凛 International Culture Publishing Corporation · 2025 After running full tilt for more than thirty years, Yeongju is one day struck by a sudden sense of exhaustion. She quits her job and divorces her husb…
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Rating 4.1
Bookshop Diary 肖恩·白塞尔 / 顾真 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2022 At eighteen, Shaun Bythell first saw the bookshop called The Book Shop in the small Scottish town of Wigtown. Walking past with a friend, he glimpsed …