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Archive for the ‘Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable’ Category
Rare Book Lore: Selections from Letters (Hardcover)
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010A Book of Booksellers: Conversations with the Antiquarian Book Trade (Hardcover)
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Review
An invaluable mine of fact, anecdote, memories, few lies and no statistics. Thank God for all the persons that Sheila Markham has immortalised, and all the rest she has yet to reach. –Nicolas Barker, The Book CollectorThis is the most instructive book about the antiquarian book trade that has appeared for years. –Frank Herrmann, Rare Book ReviewAn extraordinarily good read. –Paul Minet, Book Source Magazine
The last resort of the English eccentric, the antiquarian book trade is rich in colourful and entertaining characters. Since 1991 Sheila Markham has been interviewing some of its most influential figures. In this volume fifty dealers each tell their own story and express their personal phi (more…)
Old Books, Rare Friends (Paperback)
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Synopsis
The antiquarian booksellers, life-long friends, and companions recall their literary adventures, collecting triumphs, and eventful lives.
Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers (Hardcover)
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
The first published reference source to bring together biographical information on American antiquarian bookdealers, this book provides librarians, dealers, and collectors with useful information on those dealers who were prominent in securing and distributing used and rare books, manuscripts, maps, autographs, documents, and ephemera. The book covers 205 notable dealers who died before August 1, 1997. Prominent dealers are identified as those who carried quality stock, issued carefully documented sales catalogs, participated in professional organizations, and helped develop important private and institutional collections. The book considers such well-known figures as Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach, Charles Sessler, and Hans (more…)
Book Finds: How to Find, Buy and Sell Used and Rare Books (Paperback)
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
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Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade (Paperback)
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
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 colourful 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 th (more…)
