Book row : an anecdotal and pictorial history of the antiquarian book trade / Marvin Mondlin & Roy Meador ; foreword by Madeleine B. Stern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mondlin, Marvin.

Contributor:

Meador, Roy.

Stern, Madeleine B., 1912-2007.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquarian booksellers.

Rare books.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 405 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Antiquarian book trade

Place of Publication:

New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers : [Distributed by Publishers Group West], [2004]

Summary:

The story of the sellers and the dealers, the collectors and the readers, when America got high on books. They called it the New York BooksellersU Row, or, more commonly, Book Row. It's an American story, the story that this richly anecdotal historical memoir amiably tells.

Notes:

Illustrated endpapers.

Title printed within single-ruled border.

"First Carroll & Graf edition 2004."

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

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0786713054 :

OCLC:

53874121