It was a hot summer day but people were all over the place buying books in bagfuls and carrying them to their cars. There was someone on the loudspeaker making announcements encouraging people to buy more and more books. My father had never seen anything like that. He was like a child in a candy store”Select Book Shop’s ongoing exhibition and sale of rare and out-of-print books at the Alliance Française is but an extension of this unique book store’s philosophy of selling books that have disappeared from the public eye. Select, located in a small bylane off Brigade Road, has made something of a speciality out of hunting down and selling rare books and manuscripts, which draws not just students, academics and visiting tourists to the shop but also some of Bangalore’s most famous artists and writers, such as Ramachandra Guha, Girish Karnad and Yusuf Arakkal.
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