Author: Leona Rostenberg (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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One Hundred Years of France, 1547-1652
Author: Leona Rostenberg (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Old Books, Rare Friends
Author: Madeline B. SternPublisher: Main Street Books
ISBN: 0307874532
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.
One Hundred Years of France, 1547-1652 - a Documentary History
Author: Leona Rostenberg, New YorkPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Old & Rare; Thirty Years in the Book Business
Author: Leona RostenbergPublisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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The Book Collector
Author: Old Books in the Old World
Author: Leona RostenbergPublisher:
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This is a charming account of postwar book buying abroad by the "Holmes and Watson" of antiquarian books. After the war, Americans went abroad for European culture, food and art, but Rostenberg and Stern, the Grand Dames of the antiquarian bookselling world, went to Europe to buy old books. Old Books in the Old World glows with the details of their book-buying trips abroad between 1947 and 1957. Filled with tales of steamships, cobblestone streets and dusty rare bookshops, this illustrated journal draws from original diaries and letters and contemporary recollections. Full of history and bookish tales, this personal insight into postwar Europe and the antiquarian book-selling scene will be of interest both to the seasoned bibliophile and to the casual reader.
Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare LibraryPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Special Collections in College and University Libraries
Author: Publisher: New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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African Research & Documentation
Author: Mazarinades
Author: State University of New York at Buffalo. University LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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