The secret lives of second-hand books: How one author made it his mission to discover the previous owners of pre-owned books
There is something bold and beguiling about this book – it is also a little (good Latin word) pugnacious. The author’s idea is simple – tracking down the previous owners of his second-hand books through little more than their names written in the front, dates and, sometimes, helpfully, their school or university. Josh Spero had …