The Booksellers

D.W. Young / Documentary / USA / 2019 / 109 mins / PG

Screening Friday June 19 until end of day July 2

THE BOOKSELLERS is a lively, behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world and the fascinating people who inhabit it. 

The film takes viewers inside a small but fascinating world populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers - many of them as interesting and unique as the books they sell and adore, THE BOOKSELLERS is both a loving celebration of book culture and a serious exploration of the future of the book. 

Among the delights featured are the most expensive book ever sold, Da Vinci’s The Codex Leicester; handwritten manuscripts; jeweled bindings; books bound in human flesh; essential early hip-hop documents; accounts of polar expeditions published with samples of real wooly mammoth fur; and many more.

“A treat for anyone who appreciates the printed word” – The Hollywood Reporter

“Lovely and wistful. ‘The Booksellers‘ is a documentary for anyone who can still look at a book and see a dream, a magic teleportation device, an object that contains the world” – Variety

Costs $9.99, once payment is made you have 5 days to watch.

Watching the film here supports Canadian distributor, Blue Ice Docs, and Carbon Arc Cinema.