Richard Axe Book collector Aysgarth Old Youth hostel

Richard Axe, 73, the owner of The Old Youth Hostel, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, an antiquarian bookseller, and collector has created a unique library in a former Yorkshire Dales youth hostel in Aysgarth for the last 19 years - with over 125,000 books on over a mile of shelving filling over 20 rooms of the old hostel. Due to failing health Richard is going to have to give up his life's work and his livelihood but would be willing to act as a mentor to anybody who had the means and the interest to take it on.