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Author : Madeleine B. Stern
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Antiquarian Bookselling in the United States written by Madeleine B. Stern and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1985-06-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marvin Mondlin
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780786716524
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Book Row written by Marvin Mondlin and published by Carroll & Graf Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of 14th Street in Manhattan, mostly on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades, from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived a bibliophiles' paradise. They called it the New York Booksellers' Row, or, more commonly, Book Row. It's an American story, the story that this richly anecdotal historical memoir amiably tells: as American as the rags-to-riches tale of the Strand, which began its life as book stall on Eighth Street and today houses 2.5 million volumes in twelve miles of space. It's a story cast with colorful characters: like the horse-betting, poker-playing go-getter and book dealer George D. Smith; the irascible Russian-born book hunter Peter Stammer, the visionary Theodore C. Schulte; Lou Cohen, founder of the still-surviving Argosy Book Store; gentleman bookseller George Rubinowitz and his legendary shrewd wife Jenny. Rising rents, street crime, urban redevelopment, television-the reasons are many for the demise of Book Row, but in this volume, based on interviews with dozens upon dozens of the book people who bought, sold, and collected there, it lives again.
Author : Madeline B. Stern
Publisher : Main Street Books
ISBN 13 : 0307874532
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Old Books, Rare Friends written by Madeline B. Stern and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern are renowned for unlocking the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder" stories on subjects like transvestitism, hashish smoking, and feminism. Old Books, Rare Friends describes their mutual passion for books and literary sleuthing as they take us on their earliest European book buying jaunts. Using what they call Finger-spitzengefühl, the art of evaluating antiquarian books by handling, experience, and instinct, we are treated to some of their greatest discoveries amid the mildewed basements of London's booksellers after the Blitz. We experience the thrill of finding one of the earliest known books printed in America between 1617-1619 by the Pilgrim Press and learn about the influential role of publisher-printers from the fifteenth century. Like a precious gem, Old Books, Rare Friends is a book to treasure about the companionship of two rare friends and their shared passion for old books.
Author : John Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Books and Book-collectors written by John Carter and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Middle Atlantic Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, New York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (226 download)
Download or read book Rare Books, First Editions, Autographs and Manuscripts written by Middle Atlantic Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, New York and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orson Ferguson Whitney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Elias written by Orson Ferguson Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Windwalker
Publisher : Harvard Perspectives Press
ISBN 13 : 9780971577831
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (778 download)
Download or read book Selling Used Books Online written by Stephen Windwalker and published by Harvard Perspectives Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Ashton Yates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Winter in Italy, in a Series of Letters to a Friend written by Mrs. Ashton Yates and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Goodman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452966915
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The Last Bookseller written by Gary Goodman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade during its last Golden Age When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982, he had no idea the visit would change his life. He walked in as a psychiatric counselor and walked out as the store’s new owner. In The Last Bookseller Goodman describes his sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious career as a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota—the early struggles, the travels to estate sales and book fairs, the remarkable finds, and the bibliophiles, forgers, book thieves, and book hoarders he met along the way. Here we meet the infamous St. Paul Book Bandit, Stephen Blumberg, who stole 24,000 rare books worth more than fifty million dollars; John Jenkins, the Texas rare book dealer who (probably) was murdered while standing in the middle of the Colorado River; and the eccentric Melvin McCosh, who filled his dilapidated Lake Minnetonka mansion with half a million books. In 1990, with a couple of partners, Goodman opened St. Croix Antiquarian Books in Stillwater, one of the Twin Cities region’s most venerable bookshops until it closed in 2017. This store became so successful and inspired so many other booksellers to move to town that Richard Booth, founder of the “book town” movement in Hay-on-Wye in Wales, declared Stillwater the First Book Town in North America. The internet changed the book business forever, and Goodman details how, after 2000, the internet made stores like his obsolete. In the 1990s, the Twin Cities had nearly fifty secondhand bookshops; today, there are fewer than ten. As both a memoir and a history of booksellers and book scouts, criminals and collectors, The Last Bookseller offers an ultimately poignant account of the used and rare book business during its final Golden Age.
Author : Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. Southern California Chapter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Bookseller Catalogs of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, Southern California Chapter written by Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. Southern California Chapter and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Directory of the Antiquarian Booksellers and Dealers in Second-hand Books of the United States ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Dexter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Pickle for the Knowing Ones written by Timothy Dexter and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Barringer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300077872
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (778 download)
Download or read book Reading the Pre-Raphaelites written by Tim Barringer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated book focuses on the Pre-Raphaelite artists and their radical departure from artistic conventions. Barringer explores the meanings encoded in Pre-Raphaelite paintings and analyses key pictures and their significance within the complex social and cultural matrix of 19th century Britain.
Author : Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. Middle Atlantic States Chapter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Cooperative Catalog of the Members of the Middle Atlantic States Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America written by Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. Middle Atlantic States Chapter and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (855 download)
Download or read book All Hallows' Eve written by Charles Williams and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. Southern California Chapter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. Southern California Chapter and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Howard Shinn
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016614214
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Mining Camps written by Charles Howard Shinn and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
