Who are second-hand booksellers? These are people who know everything about rare and ancient books, including they know at what price a particular rarity can be sold. In this sphere of trade, there are authorities with special flair and encyclopedic knowledge of their craft.
One of such authorities is the antiquarian Mikhail Klimov. He has a lot of weight among second-hand book dealers in Moscow. We can say that he devoted his whole life to rare books. In addition, Mikhail himself became a writer: today, ten books have already come out from under his pen.
Biography
Mikhail Mendeleevich Klimov was born in the city of Pavlovsky Posad, Moscow Region, where his childhood and youth passed. The Klimov family was intelligent, hence, apparently, Mikhail had a love of literature and books.
However, after graduation, he went to Moscow, entered GITIS and successfully received a diploma of higher education. Even then, he was reading books on philosophy, which were very difficult to get. They had to be bought from buyers or speculators. Then the thought came to Mikhail that he, too, could sell books to buy those that he wanted to read.
On this path, he gained quite a lot of knowledge about books - that not all publications are valued equally, that there are rare copies that you will not find in the afternoon with fire. So there was interest in this matter and Klimov realized that he wanted to engage in the sale of rare books professionally.
Then for a young man who loves books, this lesson was an opportunity to learn the world of second-hand book literature more deeply, to understand it, and then it became a bit of inspiration and real creativity.
Second-hand book career
And Klimov began to study this unfamiliar type of occupation, and eventually became the best of the second-hand book-makers.
He began by looking for books everywhere: at acquaintances, in shops, at the ruins of books. And often quite interesting specimens came across. And then Michael developed his concept. If earlier his colleagues sought to intercept and buy books from people who were handing them over to a second-hand bookstore, then he bought what he had not taken from the bookstore. Thus, he wanted to prove that he knew books better than store merchants.
And his theory worked - for a week of such practice, he earned a monthly salary of a highly paid employee of a large enterprise. Then things went even better, this work completely captured Klimov.
