Author: Madeline B. Stern
Publisher: Main Street Books
ISBN: 0307874532
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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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: Ellis (Firm)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Author: Sheppard Press, The
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ISBN: 9780900661211
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Author: Music Library Association
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Author: Christopher Page
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316368955
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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Few now remember that the guitar was popular in England during the age of Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare, and yet it was played everywhere from the royal court to the common tavern. This groundbreaking book, the first entirely devoted to the renaissance guitar in England, deploys new literary and archival material, together with depictions in contemporary art, to explore the social and musical world of the four-course guitar among courtiers, government servants and gentlemen. Christopher Page reconstructs the trade in imported guitars coming to the wharves of London, and pieces together the printed tutor for the instrument (probably of 1569) which ranks as the only method book for the guitar to survive from the sixteenth century. Two chapters discuss the remains of music for the instrument in tablature, both the instrumental repertoire and the traditions of accompanied song, which must often be assembled from scattered fragments of information.
Author: James Coover
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: Edward Jewitt Wheeler
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Languages : en
Pages : 120
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