Working in the Commonwealth of Books: 1960-2025 A Cultural Memoir - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Chapel Street EditionsISBN-13:9781988299587ISBN-10:1988299586UPC:9781988299587Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Popular Culture, CareersSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCYMK76TNQ
Working in the Commonwealth of Books: 1960-2025 A Cultural Memoir
From a golden age of bookselling to community-based publishing
Working in the Commonwealth of Books lays out Keith Helmuth's cultural memoir encompassing the past six and half decades-a narrative seen through the lens of a bookseller, bookstore manager, college librarian, and publisher.
Starting in the 1960s in Iowa City, Syracuse, and Manhattan, an account of an era unfolds as seen by an activist...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Chapel Street EditionsISBN-13:9781988299587ISBN-10:1988299586UPC:9781988299587Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Popular Culture, CareersSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCYMK76TNQ
Helmuth, Keith: - "Keith Helmuth grew up with a mother who read to her children - A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, for example, and The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, a book she loved and read aloud to her whole family gathered for repeated winter evenings at the dining room table after supper. He learned to read by picking up the adventure novels his older brother and...
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