Bookstore : the life and times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co. / Lynne Tillman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tillman, Lynne, author.

Contributor:

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017, former owner.

Harcourt Brace & Company, publisher.

Harry Mathews Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books & Co. (New York, N.Y.)--History.

Books & Co. (New York, N.Y.).

History.

Watson, Jeannette (Bookstore owner).

Watson, Jeannette.

Bookstores--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Bookstores.

Booksellers and bookselling--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Literature, Modern--20th century--Marketing.

Literature, Modern.

Marketing.

New York (State)--New York.

Books & Co--History.

Bookstores--New York (State)--New York--20th century.

Booksellers and bookselling--New York (State)--New York--20th century.

Literature, Modern--20th century--Marketing--United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Annotations (Provenance) -- 20th century.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017 (inscription) (Mathews copy)

Chaix, Marie, 1942 (inscription) (Mathews copy)

Tillman, Lynne (autograph, Oct. 99) (Mathews copy)

Physical Description:

xxv pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 337 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999.

Summary:

"For twenty years New York City's Books & Co. was one of the premier independent bookstores in the country."--BOOK JACKET. "Bookstore is the story of this legendary institution and its determined founder, Jeannette Watson. With the help of the voices of such writers (and store habitues) as Roy Blount Jr., Brendan Gill, Calvin Trillin, Susan Cheever, Susan Sontag, Fran Lebowitz, and many more, Bookstore describes the inner workings of a great store and goes beyond the store's walls to explore the state of publishing and bookselling in a time when the very landscape of the written word has shifted radically."--Jacket.

Contents:

Preface / Woody Allen

Bookstore

Afterword / Jeannette Watson

Jeannette Watson's Secret List of Fifty Books, her Best-Sellers

Twenty Years of Books & Co. Readings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.

Mathews Collection copy has dustjacket.

Mathews Collection copy has inscription: "To Harry & Marie-- with love ever, Lynne Oct. 99"

ISBN:

0151004250

9780151004256

OCLC:

41039882

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