„Biblioteka Księgarza” – seria wydawnicza wspierająca kształcenie księgarzy w PRL
“The library of the bookseller” – the source of information about bookshops operating in the times of the Polish People’s Republic

Summary/Abstract: Biblioteka Księgarza is the publishing series administered by the Association of Polish Booksellers, but published by various publishing houses such as Wiedza Powszechna and Państwowe Wydawnictwa Szkolnictwa Zawodowego. The series came out in the years 1960–1965 and included nine units useful in the education of future booksellers. The publications have a simple graphic layout. The series have been almost entirely forgotten, but the nine publications are now the source of information about how bookshops operated during the times of the Polish People’s Republic. The information, which may be used in discussions about various aspects connected with the sale of books in the communist times, concern the organizational composition of the Headquarters of Booksellers “Dom Książki”, the organization of mail order sales, and the calculation of the margin for distributors.

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