Huw Osborne: 1 book
The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop
Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity, associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and economic roles of independent bookstores, and it considers how eight shops founded during the modernist...
