Old Books Rare Friends

Author : Madeline B. Stern
Publisher : Main Street Books
ISBN 13 : 0307874532
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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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 : Lawrence Goldstone
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0312207492
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Used and Rare written by Lawrence Goldstone and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones-rediscover the joy of reading, laugh, and fall in love with books all over again. The idea that books had stories associated with them that had nothing to do with the stories inside them was new to us. We had always valued the history, the world of ideas contained between the covers of a book or, as in the case of The Night Visitor, some special personal significance. Now, for the first time, we began to appreciate that there was a history and a world of ideas embodied by the books themselves. Part travel story, part love story, and part memoir, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone's Used and Rare provides a delightful love letter to book lovers everywhere.

Author : Leona Rostenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743202457
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bookends written by Leona Rostenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rare book dealers who delighted readers with the history of their bookselling days in "Old Books, Rare Friends" offer an intimate look at the joys of a friendship that has lasted more than half a century. of photos.

Author : Marvin Mondlin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510752560
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book Row written by Marvin Mondlin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Story of the Bookstores on Fourth Avenue from the 1890s to the 1960s New York City has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, 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 the New York Booksellers’ Row, or Book Row. This richly anecdotal memoir features historical photographs and the rags-to-riches tale of the Strand, which began its life as a book stall on Eighth Street and today houses 2.5 million volumes (or sixteen miles of books) in twelve miles of space. It’s a story cast with characters as legendary and colorful as the horse-betting, poker-playing, go-getter of a 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; and gentleman bookseller George Rubinowitz and his formidably shrewd wife, Jenny. Book Row remembers places that all lovers of books should never forget, like Biblo & Tamen, the shop that defied book-banning laws; the Green Book Shop, favored by John Dickson Carr; Ellenor Lowenstein’s world-renowned gastronomical Corner Book Shop (which was not on a corner); and the Abbey Bookshop, the last of the Fourth Avenue bookstores to close its doors. Rising rents, street crime, urban redevelopment, and television are many of the reasons for the demise of Book Row, but in this volume, based on interviews with dozens of the people who bought, sold, collected, and breathed in its rare, bibliodiferous air, it lives again.

Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504061152
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love, Death & Rare Books written by Robert Hellenga and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As times change for the book business, a rare book dealer lives through appraisals, auctions, danger, drama, love, and loss, in this thoughtful novel. Chas. Johnson & Sons, a rare bookstore in Chicago’s Hyde Park, has been in Gabe Johnson’s family for generations. It’s where he learned to love Romantic poetry, and where he found a romance of his own with Olivia. Geared toward a colorful community of serious collectors, the shop has survived competition from big chains, and even a violent attack for stocking The Satanic Verses. But by the time Gabe takes over, Olivia is gone, and the world of books has changed. Internet sellers and gentrifying rents force him to close. Down but not out, Gabe decides to reopen on the shores of Lake Michigan. Secretly, he hopes this new beginning will also be a return into Olivia’s arms. But just as he finds her again, Gabe faces yet another threat to the store—and everything else he holds most dear.

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Total Pages : 1194 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friends' Weekly Intelligencer written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1206 pages
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Download or read book Friends' Intelligencer United with the Friends' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Caroline Sharp
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031228621X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Writer's Workbook written by Caroline Sharp and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-14 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of years of blood, sweat, and story writing--along with an MFA, some published stories, an optioned screenplay, and a million cups of coffee--"A Writer's Workbook" is Sharp's ingenious collection of exercises to inspire, encourage, warm up and jump-start anyone who writes.

Author : Clark Jillson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of Rare and Curious Old Books, in the Private Library of Clark Jillson, 1470-1699 written by Clark Jillson and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: