The house of twenty thousand books
Book collectors
Antiquarian booksellers
Historians, biography
London (england), biography
Booksellers and bookselling
Library
Businesspeople, biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Communism
Intellectual life
Biography
"The House of Twenty Thousand Books is journalist Sasha Abramsky's elegy to the vanished intellectual world of his grandparents, Chimen and Miriam, and their vast library of socialist literature and Jewish history. A rare book dealer and self-educated polymath who would go on to teach at Oxford and …
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