Barry Singer is the proprietor of CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS in New York City, the only standing bookshop in the world devoted to the writings of Winston Churchill.
There were lots more of these green-spined books, several hundred of them, in fact; in W Hartley Seed, the Sheffield University bookshop, there was even a carousel devoted to them, which meant (cash allowing) that I could perform swooping raids on the store, knowing exactly where I was headed.
Now in its 84th impression in Spanish, it remains a fixture on the exiguous shelves devoted to Latin America in bookshops in Europe and the United States.
And certainly the only place where I have ever seen, in a bookshop in the high street, a calendar devoted to ferrets.
Not only do travel sections in state bookshops groan under the weight of titles devoted to Connecticut's tourist curiosities, this hunger for lore, legend and local history does not just encompass the state as a whole.
WALK into any big bookshop, and chances are that you will find a whole floor devoted to weighty tomes with titles such as "UML in a Nutshell" or "Programming Python".
A world traveller was browsing through the bookshop in the Palace Hotel in Madrid recently, and specifically through two English-language shelves devoted to paperback detective….
"If all of those corporate outlets vanish, there is suddenly a hell of a lot less space devoted to showcasing a large number of titles," said J. B. Dickey, owner of the Seattle Mystery Bookshop.
Always devoted to family.
He remained devoted to her.
But a museum devoted to math?
