The Adventures of Bernie Burrows, Bookseller

By Alan Austin

Bernie Burrows is a reader, collector, and seller of books. His world is populated by people struggling through the calamities of life, as is Bernie himself. But Bernie doggedly pursues his vocation despite growing competition from other bookdealers and websites, and an increasingly difficult public. Join Bernie as he risks a late night opening of his bookshop in the hope of 'the big sale', encounters the phantom book-leaver, faces a life-or-death locked room mystery he has to solve, sets off on an expedition across the streets of Chicago in search of dust-jacketed treasure, and many more adventures. These stories were written by Alan Austin (The Guv'nor), who was one of the most respected figures in UK comic book fandom. He did much to inspire and enthuse many others in the field. Alan was the first full-time comics dealer in the UK, and published many fanzines about American comic books throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, including Fantasy Unlimited (later Comics Unlimited), the first Comic Book Price Guide for Great Britain, the Golden Age fanzine and the DC and Marvel Comics Indexes. Alan later became a respected coin and book dealer, when he wrote a these stories to chronicle the disappearing world of the second-hand bookshops and bookdealers, written with an honesty and perception that only an insider could relate. He also wrote a book that details his life in comics, and his experiences as a comic collector and dealer from the early days of comic book fandom, beginning in the 1960s: Comics Unlimited: My life as a Comic Collector and Dealer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B096TJLP2P
• ISBN13: 9798570854666
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 167 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.0"