1. Thomas started selling books (then they
were antiquarian; now they are new) in a plain grey dustwrapper (like the one
he’s wearing here) about twenty years ago. He has also sold books in a brown
plaid dressing gown (when he had his own business and sold them by catalogue),
but not so often.
2. The unitary filing system. This useful bag
contains the paperwork for this year’s Christmas catalogue. The label is both
an injunction to read the contents, and an indication that the contents have
already been read.
3. These are bibliographer’s boots but they
are good for bookselling, too. Thomas has tried standing at various points
along the path a book takes from writer to reader, and finds the best thing
about bookselling is that it occurs at (and can even create) the most exciting
moment of all: when a book and a reader find each other.
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