He wore a golden crown made from cardboard, appointed a horse as his prime minister and declared his hometown an independent country on April Fool’s Day. In many ways, Richard Booth was a classic ...
2003-05-25 04:00:00 PDT Hay-on-Wye, Wales-- For most of the past century, this was a sleepy little market town. What awakened it was the arrival of Richard Booth, an eccentric bibliophile, canny ...
He transformed a fading Welsh town into a tourist magnet by buying books in bulk from colleges, libraries, defunct wholesalers and collectors’ estates. By Sam Roberts Richard Booth, who collected a ...
Richard Booth, who turned Hay-on-Wye into a second-hand bookshop capital, has died aged 80. He was responsible for transforming the market town in Powys into the world's foremost home for books. Mr ...
He wore a golden crown made from cardboard, appointed a horse as his prime minister and declared his hometown an independent country on April Fool’s Day. In many ways, Richard Booth was a classic ...
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