This is the CBSi in the world. I'm John Batsworth. Oliver Dockshire.

His new book is once upon a tone the misadventures of a rare bookseller.

Henry Southerin is a rare bookseller, the Antiquarian bookseller

on Sackville Street.

And on the website now, which I invite everybody to examine, They are very pleased and excited by Oliver publishing

this book. It's neatly featured in the website. You can buy it through in British terms. It isn't as easy as Amazon would be but right now you can buy it there's a

picture of the cover of his book published in the US by Norton. We go now to one of Oliver's

education in becoming a rare bookseller which was to attend in the city of

York, the Antiquarian Book Sellers Association.

Who are they? What did they want from you and what is it like to be with other rare booksellers?

So they're, but York, it turns out, it's almost historically as big as London when it comes to

Antiquarian book selling and they're everywhere in York and so every year they

hold the Antiquarian book seminar to try and encourage more people into the

trades if book scholars can learn from each other, they hold lectures.

And because I was the apprentice sponsored by the Nationwide Association of booksellers who hold this event,

they said, you should go, we'll pay for your ticket and your train up there and that'll be a good learning experience

for you an apprentice.

So off I went off of my train up to York, ended up in a very suspicious, suspicious bed and breakfast

with very dodgy food.

But mostly it was several days of sitting in a room with booksellers

from saws I was familiar with,

you know, holding these seminars on what it meant to be a bookseller, what to buy,

...