Book Row : an anecdotal and pictorial history of the antiquarian book trade / Marvin Mondlin & Roy Meador

By:

Mondlin, Marvin

Contributor(s):

Meador, Roy

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2004.Description: xxi, 405 pages. : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:

0786713054
9780786713059

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LOC classification:

Z 480 M741b 2004

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	Z 480 M741b 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000164743

Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-364) and index.

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.

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.

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