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Book-Row : An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade by Roy Meador and Marvin Mondlin (2005, Trade Paperback)
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherAvalon Publishing
ISBN-100786716525
ISBN-139780786716524
eBay Product ID (ePID)46756943
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Books, Books & Reading, Antiques & Collectibles, Literary Criticism, History
AuthorMarvin Mondlin, Roy Meador
IllustratorYes
Dimensions
Item Height1.1in
Item Length9in
Item Weight17.3 Oz
Item Width6.1in
Additional Product Features
Publication Year2005
Dewey Edition22
FormatTrade Paperback
Book TitleBook-Row : an Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade
Dewey Decimal381.45002097471
Intended AudienceTrade
Lc Classification NumberZ480.A55
Number of Pages416 Pages
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