Gary Goodman will join the Wadena County Historical Society on Saturday, June 11 for a virtual presentation and discussion of his new book, The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade, as part of the Historical Society's BookEnds Online series.

Attend by joining the Zoom meeting (ID 867 0338 5655) at 11:30 a.m. Central. 

In The Last Bookseller, Gary Goodman describes his sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious career as a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota. As both a memoir and a history of booksellers and book scouts, criminals and collectors, The Last Bookseller offers an ultimately poignant account of the used and rare book business during its final Golden Age.

"A memoir from one of the last ‘hunter-gatherers in the book business.’ Goodman has all the requisite irascibility for a bookseller . . . lots of fun anecdotes about book thieves, bibliomaniacs, and other familiars of the book business." —Kirkus Reviews

"A well-written, engaging, educational inside account by an experienced bookseller of the contemporary antiquarian book business. Told with insight, analysis, and humor by one who survived the experience."—Steve Anderson, Ross & Haines Old Books

"A swashbuckling tale of thieves and forgers, a man who would be king, celebrities and the never-ending search for gold—in this case, books, rare ones, and the lengths some will go to acquire them. He tells his tale like a man who has seen a thing or two and lived to tell about it, a story best unwound over a beer in the corner of a dive bar. . . [a] treasure trove of a memoir." —Star Tribune