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A Selection of Antiquarian Rare & Scholary Books
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Book Row
Author: Marvin Mondlin
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN: 9780786716524
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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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.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN: 9780786716524
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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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.
A Selection of Antiquarian Rare & Scholarly Books
Author: Howes Bookshop
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Languages : en
Pages : 107
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Pages : 107
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A Miscellany of Antiquarian, Rare and Scholarly Books
Author: R. & J. Balding, Edinburgh
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Antiquariaatscatalogus Van Howes Bookshop, Hastings
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Cat. Nr. 299, A Selection of Antiquarian, Rare & Scholarly Books, 2002
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A Miscellany of Antiquarian, Rare and Scholarly Books
Author: Mansfield Book Mart
Publisher: Montréal : Mansfield Book Mart, [197--19--]
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Publisher: Montréal : Mansfield Book Mart, [197--19--]
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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A Winter in Italy, in a Series of Letters to a Friend
Author: Mrs. Ashton Yates
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Pages : 376
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Antiquariaatscatalogus Van Howes Bookshop, Hastings
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The Invention of Rare Books
Author: David McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428320
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Using examples from across Europe, David McKitterick looks at how rare books developed from being desirable objects of largely private interest to become public and even national concerns.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428320
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Using examples from across Europe, David McKitterick looks at how rare books developed from being desirable objects of largely private interest to become public and even national concerns.