Book Row An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade
Type : epub |
Size : 23.54 MB |
English |
Descirption: The American Story of the Bookstores on Fourth Avenue from the 1890s to 1960s.
New York City has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, 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 the New York Booksellers' Row, or Book Row.
This richly anecdotal memoir features historical photographs and the rags-to-riches tale of the Strand, which began its life as a book stall on Eighth Street and today houses 2.5 million volumes (or sixteen miles of books) in twelve miles of space. It's a story cast with characters as legendary and colorful as the horse-betting, poker-playing, go-getter of a book dealer George D. Smith; or the irascible Russian-born book hunter Peter Stammer; or the visionary Theodore C. Schulte; or Lou Cohen, founder of the still-surviving Argosy Book Store; or gentleman bookseller George Rubinowitz and his...
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