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Hardcover The Haunted Bookshop Book

ISBN: 0760756287

ISBN13: 9780760756287

The Haunted Bookshop

(Book #2 in the Parnassus Series)

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If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to be hoped you may chance upon a quiet by-street where there is a very remarkable bookshop.This bookshop, which does business under the unusual name "Parnassus at Home," is housed in one of the comfortable old brown-stone dwellings which have been the joy of several generations of plumbers and cockroaches. The owner of the business has been at pains to remodel the house to make it a more suitable shrine for his trade, which deals entirely in second-hand volumes. There is no second-hand bookshop in the world more worthy of respect.It was about six o'clock of a cold November evening, with gusts of rain splattering upon the pavement, when a young man proceeded uncertainly along Gissing Street, stopping now and then to look at shop windows as though doubtful of his way. At the warm and shining face of a French rotisserie he halted to compare the number enamelled on the transom with a memorandum in his hand. Then he pushed on for a few minutes, at last reaching the address he sought. Over the entrance his eye was caught by the sign: PARNASSUS AT HOMER. AND H. MIFFLINBOOKLOVERS WELCOME THIS SHOP IS HAUNTEDHe stumbled down the three steps that led into the dwelling of the muses, lowered his overcoat collar, and looked about.It was very different from such bookstores as he had been accustomed to patronize. Two stories of the old house had been thrown into one: the lower space was divided into little alcoves; above, a gallery ran round the wall, which carried books to the ceiling. The air was heavy with the delightful fragrance of mellowed paper and leather surcharged with a strong bouquet of tobacco. - Taken from "The Haunted Bookshop" written by Christopher Morley This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
Booklovers will love this

Page 120: That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it. THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP draws me straight into its story. It's a story that booklovers will enjoy--a romance with books and a mystery to be solved. Roger Mifflin owns the second-hand bookshop on...

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Rated 5 stars
Calling all Bibliophiles!

Part romance, part thriller, part comedy, the Haunted Bookshop is an offering at the altar of the book. Morley's obvious love of literature and the written word shines through in an old-fashioned, sweet, innocent tale.

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Rated 5 stars
Quaint and Delightful - Perfect Gift for Book Lovers

The Haunted Bookshop is quaint, delightful fiction that is simultaneously entertaining and thought provoking. Like its predecessor, Parnassus on Wheels, it is first and foremost a book for book lovers. The exuberant Roger Mifflin, the owner of a dusty, out-of-the way, used bookstore in Brooklyn, thrives on helping people discover new books and authors. His bookshop motto reads: "We have what you want, though you may not know...

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Rated 5 stars
The Booksellers Bible

It's been years since I read The Haunted Bookshop, but it's one of those books that really stays with you. The proprietor of the bookshop has the proper attitude about selling books and has the sign posted right up on his wall: "We sell no fakes or trashes." I first read the book when I was in 9th grade, and remember thinking wistfully that I would love to visit the Haunted Bookshop. To my immense delight, I've discovered...

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Delightful old-fashioned book about bookselling and reading

Usually the sequel is never as good as the original, but in this case, The Haunted Bookshop is even better than the first volume, Parnassus on Wheels. If you are a booklover, you will thoroughly enjoy both. This story is set in Brooklyn just after the close of WWI. The descriptions of the city made me feel like I was really there. The book is filled with observations about books and bookselling. Although the romance...

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