1. Achille.
- Author
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Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
- Subjects
LITERATURE ,BOOKSELLERS & bookselling ,BOOK industry ,BOOKS ,BOOKSTORES ,PUBLISHING ,HUMANITIES - Abstract
Profiles a French bookseller who still believes in the philosophies of the 19th century with regards to academicians and men of letters. His belief that academicians were glorious personages and that the man of letters was supreme, and second only to him was the literary bookseller; Inability to realize that a customer in the 20th century treats books are commodities; Possession of a bookcase filled with a collection of authors' copies.
- Published
- 1916