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Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
Sixpence House Lost in a Town of Books
Author: Paul Collins
A bibliophile's pilgrimage to where book lovers go when they die-Hay-on-Wye. — Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the little cobblestone village of Hay-on-Wye, the 'Town of Books' that boasts fifteen hundress inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Antiquarian bookstore...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781417726240
ISBN-10: 1417726245
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Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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I really loved the story told, and I had to think twice about trading it.
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This was such a good read, a real ode to books. The author is definitely a committed bibliophile and I loved the passages he included from long out of print books. Lots to learn, and I did! As one of the blurbs on the back cover states "A book lover's delight"
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JK avatar reviewed Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books on + 139 more book reviews
An American writer moves to Hay-on-Wye in Wales, a town with 1500 residents and 40 bookstores.