Books make a great Christmas gift, so today we’re presenting an encore episode of Main Street with Gary Goodman, the author of The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade. It’s a story punctuated with book obsessives, questionable decisions, and even death-defying treks in search of books.
"The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade"
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