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Author: William OLDYSPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A Literary Antiquary. Memoir of W. Oldys ... Together with his Diary, choice notes from his Adversaria, and an account of the London Libraries. [By J. Yeowell. Reprinted from Notes and Queries.]
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Author: William OLDYSBook Row
Author: Marvin MondlinPublisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN: 9780786716524
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
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.
The Antiquary
Author: Edward WalfordPublisher:
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Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Author: M. R. JamesPublisher:
ISBN: 1537822357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook," more. Renowned for their wit, erudition and suspense, these stories are each masterfully constructed and represent a high achievement in the ghost genre.
The Antiquarian Chronicle and Literary Advertiser
Author: Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
Author: Oliver DarkshirePublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1324092084
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Instant National Bestseller Shortlisted for the 2023 Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award "Witty, literary and very funny." —Minneapolis Star Tribune Welcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, poisoned books, and some things that aren’t even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice. Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store’s resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram). A novice in this ancient, potentially haunted establishment, Darkshire describes Sotheran’s brushes with history (Dickens, the Titanic), its joyous disorganization, and the unspoken rules of its gleefully old-fashioned staff, whose mere glance may cause the computer to burst into flames. As Darkshire gains confidence and experience, he shares trivia about ancient editions and explores the strange space that books occupy in our lives—where old books often have strong sentimental value, but rarely a commercial one. By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a Tome is the colorful story of life in one of the world’s oldest bookshops and a love letter to the benign, unruly world of antiquarian bookselling, where to be uncommon or strange is the best possible compliment.
Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Dustin GriffinPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611494710
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This book deals with changing conditions and conceptions of authorship in the long eighteenth century, a period said to have witnessed the birth of the modern author. Challenging claims about the public sphere and the professional writer, it engages with recent work on print culture and the history of the book and takes up such under-treated topics as the forms of literary careers and the persistence of the Renaissance “republic of letters” into the “age of authors.”
A Manual for the Genealogist, Topographer, Antiquary and Legal Professor, consisting of Descriptions of Public Records; parochial and other Registers; wills; County and Family Histories; Heraldic Collections in public Libraries
Author: Richard SimsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom During Thelast Century; and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artist; with a Very Copious Index. By John Nichols ... In Six Volumes. Volume 1. [- 9.]
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Author: John Herbert SlaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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