an anecdotal and pictorial history of the antiquarian book trade Mondlin, Marvin creator Meador, Roy. text festschrift nyu New York Berkeley, Calif.] Carroll & Graf Publishers Distributed by Publishers Group West 2004 monographic eng

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xxi, 405 pages. : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. An anecdotal history chronicles the nearly eight decades of the New York Booksellers' Row, from the 1890s to the 1960s, detailing the collectors, readers, bookstores, sellers, and othes who transformed the area into a haven for bibliophiles. FOREWORD by Madeleine B. Stern xi PREFACE The Lore and Lure of Book Row iii Hymn to Fourth Avenue by Eli Siegel xxi CHAPTER ONE The Smith a Mighty Bookman Was He 1(18) G.D.S. and Bookselling from Fourth Avenue to the Collecting World CHAPTER TWO An Early Beaux Books Quartet 19(20)Isaac Mendoza Jacob Abrahams Peter Stammer David Kirschenbaum CHAPTER THREE Dauber & Pine and the Sparrow Sign 39 (18) Samuel Dauber Nathan S. Pine Alfred Goldsmith CHAPTER FOUR Giant Schulte's and a "Ship of Books" 57 (20) Theodore Schulte Philip Pesky Wilfred Pesky Dave Butler Louis Cohen CHAPTER FIVE Book Row and the Booksellers' Associations 77(18) CHAPTER SIX Bookselling in the Family Way 95 (18) Samuel Weiser Stanley Gilman Scheinbaum Brothers Other Relatives CHAPTER SEVEN A Book Row Odysseus and Other Bookmen True 113 (20) Harry Gold Milton Applebaum Henry Chafetz Sidney Solomon CHAPTER EIGHT Their Memories Outlived the Bookshops 133 (18) Ben and Jack Rosenzweig George and Jenny Rubinowitz CHAPTER NINE The Winning Pair of Jacks 151 (18)Jack Biblo Jack Tannen CHAPTER TEN Books 'n Booksellers 'n Book lovers 169 (20) Harold and Gertrude Briggs Bernard Kraus arry and Ruth Carp CHAPTER ELEVEN The Bookseller with Strong Opinions 189 (18) Remembering, Honoring, Fearing, and Enjoying Walter Goldwater CHAPTER TWELVE Cookbooks, a Scholar, and the Brussel Scouts 207 (24)Eleanor Lowenstein Louis Schucman The Brussel Brothers CHAPTER THIRTEEN Where Have All the Readers Gone? 231 (22)Haskell Gruberger Leon Kramer Seymour Hacker CHAPTER FOURTEEN Book Row Memories: Buyers, Browsers, and Mourners 253 (30) CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Strand Lives On 283 (24) Benjamin Bass Fred Bass Nancy Bass CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Later Generation 307(18) Timothy Johns Glenn Horowitz Steve Crowley CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Book Row �� Past, Present, Future 325 (18) EPILOGUES Book Row Forever Redux 343 (6) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 349 (4)REFERENCES 353 (12) APPENDIX The Island of Books: A Look Back to the Earliest Decades of Books in New York City. Marvin Mondlin & Roy Meador Map on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-364) and index. n-us-ny Antiquarian booksellers New York (State) New York History 20th century Libreros anticuarios Estados Unidos Z 480 M741b 2004 0786713054 9780786713059 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0830/2004299033-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0830/2004299033-d.html BJBSDDR 040416 20240123154432.0 eng