Gene Alloway is the managing partner and owner of Motte and Bailey Booksellers.

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James (Gene) Alloway is an affiliate of SI and librarian of the Information and Library Studies Library within the University Library, and webmaster of the University Library.

• Local Love Fridays: Finding Good Books at Motte and Bailey Booksellers, A2eatwrite, July 2009

Motte and Bailey grew out of an abandoned board-game business founded by Gene and his friends Paul Hare and John Murphy (who left to go on to law school), and it's now grown into a true book community. Gene's Culinary History book club will be starting this July 15th, there's an ongoing History of Books and Printing club and a history reading group, led by Professor Mike Homel of EMU.