A man in a trench coat and hat strolls incognito through the aisles of Alibri until, when it's time to pay for the novel he wants to give to the friend accompanying him, he can no longer conceal his identity: it'sArturo Pérez-Revertewho didn't want to miss the centenary of one of Barcelona's oldest and most beloved bookstores. The author ofThe Dumas Club He ended up signing a copy of the latest Captain Alatriste installment at the Alibri team the same week they celebrated their 100th anniversary, the culmination of a long and eventful journey that began in late November 1925, when Anton Schaedel, a German bookseller trained at the Institut Herder in Barcelona, opened Herder –Alibri since the late 1990s–, which everyone knew by the nickname "the German bookstore." The establishment, located on the first floor of number 22 Balmes Street, was mainly dedicated to the import and sale of books in Spanish and Latin published by the Herder publishing house, founded in 1798 in Freiburg.