ARGONAUT BOOKS

Stylish, authoritative and full of telling anecdotes. Andrew Pettegree is the ideal guide through half a millennium of selling booksDennis Duncan, author of INDEX, A HISTORY OF THEAn absorbing and thorough history of the book trade whose shaky livelihoods have, for nearly 600 years, been at the mercy of the fickle vagaries of changing winds ... Scholarly and engagingShaun Bythell, author of THE DIARY OF A BOOKSELLERAt last, a history of the bookshop which paints the big picture. Every chapter of Pettegree's kaleidoscopic account has enough stories, characters and statistics to satisfy even the...Read More