PEACEFUL READING IN A TIME OF FEAR AND WAR: 1/4: Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire (Author)

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PEACEFUL READING IN A TIME OF FEAR AND WAR: 1/4: Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Misadventures-Rare-Bookseller/dp/1324092076/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Welcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, poisoned books, and some things that aren’t even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice.

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store’s resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram).
1817 Buckingham Library