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Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

By Oliver Darkshire
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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

This is a delightfully witty trip through the unique world of bookselling by a former bookseller (and blogger) at Southeran's, one of London's oldest established antiquarian bookshops. Oliver Darkshire offers tales of an accidental career, low pay, idiosyncratic colleagues, ghosts, and customers good, bad and bewildering. Once Upon a Tome is a love letter to booksellers and bibliophiles.

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Shortlisted for the 2023 Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award


"Witty, literary and very funny." —Minneapolis Star Tribune


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 appl...

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