![]() I cannot remember when I read a book with such delight. Schwartz Bookshops About the Author Lewis Buzbee is a. Read The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop A Memoir, a History by Lewis Buzbee available from Rakuten Kobo. Rich with anecdotes, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop is the perfect choice for those who relish the enduring pleasures of spending an afternoon finding just the right book. In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, a Book Sense selection, Lewis Buzbee. Interwoven throughout is a fascinating historical account of the bookseller's trade-from the great Alexandria library with an estimated one million papyrus scrolls to Sylvia Beach's famous Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, which led to the extraordinary effort to publish and sell James Joyce's Ulysses during the 1920s. He shares his passion for books, which began with ordering through The Weekly Reader in grade school. ![]() In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Buzbee, a former bookseller and sales representative, celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore-the smell and touch of books, getting lost in the deep canyons of shelves, and the silent community of readers. The shortened light of the afternoon and the idleness and hush of the hour gather everything close, the shelves and the books and the few other customers who graze head-bent in the narrow aisles. This is my ideal time to be in a bookstore. ![]() "I cannot remember when I read a book with such delight." -Paul Yamazaki, City Lights Bookstore November, a dark, rainy Tuesday, late afternoon. ![]()
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