Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
- ISBN-10
- 1402565380
- ISBN-13
- 9781402565380
- Category
- Book collectors
- Pages
- 314
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Author
- Paul Collins
Description
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 hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Antiquarian bookstores, no less.
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