Old Books Rare Friends

Author : Madeline B. Stern
Publisher : Main Street Books
ISBN 13 : 0307874532
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Books, Rare Friends written by Madeline B. Stern and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lawrence Goldstone
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0312207492
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Used and Rare written by Lawrence Goldstone and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones-rediscover the joy of reading, laugh, and fall in love with books all over again. The idea that books had stories associated with them that had nothing to do with the stories inside them was new to us. We had always valued the history, the world of ideas contained between the covers of a book or, as in the case of The Night Visitor, some special personal significance. Now, for the first time, we began to appreciate that there was a history and a world of ideas embodied by the books themselves. Part travel story, part love story, and part memoir, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone's Used and Rare provides a delightful love letter to book lovers everywhere.

Author : Leona Rostenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743202457
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bookends written by Leona Rostenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rare book dealers who delighted readers with the history of their bookselling days in "Old Books, Rare Friends" offer an intimate look at the joys of a friendship that has lasted more than half a century. of photos.

Author : Sigrid Nunez
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735219451
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Friend (National Book Award Winner) written by Sigrid Nunez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A beautiful book … a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love." —Wall Street Journal "A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...Nunez has a wry, withering wit." —NPR "Dry, allusive and charming…the comedy here writes itself.” The New York Times A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them. Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.

Author : Marvin Mondlin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510752560
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book Row written by Marvin Mondlin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Story of the Bookstores on Fourth Avenue from the 1890s to the 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; the irascible Russian-born book hunter Peter Stammer; the visionary Theodore C. Schulte; Lou Cohen, founder of the still-surviving Argosy Book Store; and gentleman bookseller George Rubinowitz and his formidably shrewd wife, Jenny. Book Row remembers places that all lovers of books should never forget, like Biblo & Tamen, the shop that defied book-banning laws; the Green Book Shop, favored by John Dickson Carr; Ellenor Lowenstein’s world-renowned gastronomical Corner Book Shop (which was not on a corner); and the Abbey Bookshop, the last of the Fourth Avenue bookstores to close its doors. Rising rents, street crime, urban redevelopment, and television are many of the reasons for the demise of Book Row, but in this volume, based on interviews with dozens of the people who bought, sold, collected, and breathed in its rare, bibliodiferous air, it lives again.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1194 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friends' Weekly Intelligencer written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1206 pages
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Download or read book Friends' Intelligencer United with the Friends' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gail Caldwell
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812979117
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let's Take the Long Way Home written by Gail Caldwell and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER They met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story) became best friends, talking about everything from their love of books and their shared history of a struggle with alcohol to their relationships with men. Walking the woods of New England and rowing on the Charles River, these two private, self-reliant women created an attachment more profound than either of them could ever have foreseen. Then, several years into this remarkable connection, Knapp was diagnosed with cancer. With her signature exquisite prose, Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion, and courage in this gorgeous memoir about treasuring a best friend, and coming of age in midlife. Let’s Take the Long Way Home is a celebration of the profound transformations that come from intimate connection—and it affirms, once again, why Gail Caldwell is recognized as one of our bravest and most honest literary voices.

Author : Caroline Sharp
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031228621X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Writer's Workbook written by Caroline Sharp and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-14 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of years of blood, sweat, and story writing--along with an MFA, some published stories, an optioned screenplay, and a million cups of coffee--"A Writer's Workbook" is Sharp's ingenious collection of exercises to inspire, encourage, warm up and jump-start anyone who writes.