A Bookstore that’s Succeeding
Five years ago or so I paid a visit on Robert Wright who operated a rare book shop out of his home (still does) in Tamworth, Ontario. I bought a signed first edition of E.L. Doctorow’s World’s Fair, Lincoln by Gore Vidal, and several early works by Aldous Huxley.
I dropped in on Robert again last weekend. He and his wife were preparing a meal for some guests, so we didn’t have much time to spend together, enough, however to pick up two more Huxley’s (including a lovely copy of the American edition of The Olive Tree, complete with sparkling end papers) and explore his new, at least to me, shop…Shortly after my initial visit he converted a barn on his property into an open store catering to the general reader. While he continues to run the rare book operation, most of his time is now spent doing appraisals, and running The Tamworth Book Shop,
which, I’m happy to report, is doing very well.
The place was ‘packed to the rafters’ -- not a free bail to sit on - recently for a reading by Kingston poet Carolyn Smart. Here’s the evidence:
More of the same is planned for the coming months.
