John Dunning managed to draw on his real life experience running a bookshop in Denver to create a detailed portrayal of the strange and sometimes seedy world of used and rare books. That little page-turner mystery gave material to construct spires on that original foundation.įor those who haven’t read Dunning’s Bookman series, you should get a copy of Booked to Die as soon as possible. The second book I was given was John Dunning’s Booked to Die. It supplied me with a solid foundation on which to build my knowledge of used and rare books. The first, ABC for Book Collectors, was a thorough encyclopedia of the terminology of the trade. When I first started working in a used bookstore, the shop keeper assigned me two books to read before starting.
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