A Factotum in the Book Trade: A Memoir

385 Pages·2022·1.315 MB·English

by  Marius Kociejowski

CONTENTS
A Floating World
The Road I’d Later Take
A Giraffe in Edinburgh Zoo
The Pope of Long Acre
A Paragon of Seedy Exactitude
Hawks and Magpies
The Loneliness of The Collector
The Testament of Charlotte B.
The Disembowelling of Phantoms
Black Mischief and Subterfuge
The Square Root of Obsession
Is Goldilocks Jewish?
The Man Collecting Names
The Polish for Goodbye
Coda
Acknowledgements

A FACTOTUM IN THE BOOK TRADE
A MEMOIR
MARIUS KOCIEJOWSKI
Biblioasis
Windsor, Ontario
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: A factotum in the book trade : a memoir / Marius Kociejowski.
Names: Kociejowski, Marius, author.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210354771 |
Canadiana (ebook) 20210354798 | ISBN 9781771964562 (softcover)
| ISBN 9781771964579 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Kociejowski, Marius. |
LCSH: Kociejowski, Marius—Childhood and youth. | LCSH:
Booksellers and bookselling—England—Biography. | LCSH:
Booksellers and bookselling—England—London. | LCSH: Book
industries and trade—Employees—Biography. | LCSH: Book
industries and trade—England—London. | CSH: Authors, Canadian
(English)—Biography. | LCGFT: Autobiographies.
Classification: LCC Z280 .K63 2022 | DDC 381/.45002092—dc23
Edited by Daniel Wells
Copyedited by Chandra Wohleber
Text and cover designed by Michel Vrana
Published with the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the
Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to
Canadians throughout the country, and the financial support of the
Government of Canada. Biblioasis also acknowledges the support of
the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of
Ontario, which last year funded 1,709 individual artists and 1,078
organizations in 204 communities across Ontario, for a total of $52.1
million, and the contribution of the Government of Ontario through the
Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and Ontario Creates.
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