The rise of the modernist bookshop : books and the commerce of culture in the twentieth century / [edited by] Huw Osborne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Osborne, Huw Edwin, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Ashgate studies in publishing history

Ashgate studies in publishing history : manuscript, print, digital

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Booksellers and bookselling--History--20th century.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Independent bookstores--United States--History--20th century.

Independent bookstores.

Independent bookstores--England--London--History--20th century.

Independent bookstores--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Literature publishing--History--20th century.

Literature publishing.

Authors and readers--History--20th century.

Authors and readers.

Books and reading--Social aspects.

Books and reading.

Modernism (Literature).

History.

France--Paris.

England--London.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 221 pages :billustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]

Contents:

We have come to stay : the Hampshire Bookshop and the twentieth-century "personal bookshop" / Barbara A. Brannon

The Sunwise Turn and the social space of the bookshop / Ted Bishop

Frank Shay's Greenwich Village : reconstructing the bookshop at 4 Christopher Street, 1920-1925 / Molly Schwartzburg

Lady Midwest : Fanny Butcher

Books / Celia Hilliard

A place known to the world as Devonshire Street : modernism, commercialism, and The Poetry Bookshop / Bartholomew Brinkman

Counter space in Charles Lahr's Progressive Bookshop / Huw Osborne

The Grolier Poetry Bookshop : from couch to cultural icon / David Eberly

Sylvia & company : the future and legacy of Shakespeare and Company / Katy Masuga.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781472446992

1472446992

OCLC:

904528633