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PEACEFUL READING IN A TIME OF FEAR AND WAR: 4/4: Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire (Author)

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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PEACEFUL READING IN A TIME OF FEAR AND WAR: 4/4: Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire (Author)

1870 Buckingham Palace

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him him sounds like an elephant with a chest infection

0:16.0

Well they call him a dreamer and now they're right all aboard mister I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:23.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piando Ferries, there is another way. This is the CBSi in the world. I'm John Batsworth. Oliver Darkshire.

0:38.0

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

0:42.0

Henry Southerin is a rare bookseller, the Antiquarian bookseller

0:46.3

on Sackville Street.

0:48.1

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

0:57.0

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

1:08.6

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

1:14.9

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

1:20.0

York, the Antiquarian Book Sellers Association.

1:24.0

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

1:28.0

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

1:33.2

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

1:37.5

the Antiquarian book seminar to try and encourage more people into the trades if

1:41.2

book scholars can learn from each other they hold lectures

1:44.0

and because I was the apprentice sponsored by the nationwide association of booksellers

1:48.4

you 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

1:56.5

for young apprentice.

1:58.1

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

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