Author: Literary antiquaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The History of Origins
Author: Literary antiquaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Contributions to Literature, Historical, Antiquarian, and Metrical
Author: Mark Antony LowerThe Antiquary's Portfolio, Or, Cabinet Selections of Historical & Literary Curiosities, on Subjects Principally Connected with the Manners, Customs, and Morals ... of Great Britain During the Middle and Latter Ages, Etc. [With Portraits.]
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Author: J. S. ForsythThe Dublin Penny Journal
Author: The History of English Literature: with an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English Language
Author: William SpaldingPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Antiquary's Portfolio; Or, Cabinet Selection of Historical and Literary Curiosities, on Subjects Principally Connected with the Manners, Customs, Etc., of Great Britain During the Middle and Latter Ages
Author: J. S. ForsythThe History of Banbury: including copious historical and antiquarian notices of the neighbourhood
Author: Abfr BeesleyBook 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.
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