The Antiquarian Chronicle and Literary Advertiser
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Page : 202 pages
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Release : 1882
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 202 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 1884
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Page : 794 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 1815
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 810 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 1885
Category : English literature
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Page : 808 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
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Author : Marvin Mondlin
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780786716524
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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Page : 376 pages
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Release : 1882
Category : Printing
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Page : 560 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 1888
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Page : 1228 pages
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Release : 1844
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Page : 558 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic journals
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