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The Aldus Society Columbus, Ohio
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The Aldus Society Columbus, Ohio
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Bookstore-ies George Cowmeadow Bauman
“Bookstore-ies” is a growing collection of
non-fiction bookstore-related articles written by Aldus member George
Cowmeadow Bauman. They are anecdotes about his life in the used-and-rare
bookshop which he co-owns in Columbus, Ohio.
Bookstore characters and stories have had popular appeal going
back to the early 20th century in both non-fiction and fiction books.
Bookstores, especially used-bookstores, not only attract eccentric and
interesting characters and requests (“Do you carry dragon’s blood?”), but
serve as a crossroads of personal and cultural histories, discoveries in
estates, books loved for their nostalgic value, inscriptions made during
wartime and travels, mysteries revealed or solved with letters and receipts
found within the pages. George’s bookstore-ies, from 2 to 25 pages in length, are often humorous, sometimes touching, sometimes outrageous. His many years in the bookstore business have given him what Jimmy Buffett described as, “a novelist’s eye and a bartender’s ear.” Most every day he sits behind the counter with his notebook/computer nearby as readers, books, and stories come through the door. George began bookselling as a sophomore in college 45 years and 13 bookstores ago. For the past 10 years he’s been the co-owner of Acorn Bookshop. In addition to writing his bookstore-ies, over the past 20 years he has been researching and editing an annotated bibliography of the literature of American bookselling; still unpublished and constantly being added to, his manuscript now has over 400 books included and described. George can be contacted at george@acornbookshop.com
(The following documents are in PDF and require Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
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