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Rosenbach: a biography / by Edwin Wolf 2nd ; with John F. Fleming.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection Z473.R7 W6
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Literary Award Z473.R7 W6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolf, Edwin, 1911-
- Series:
- Athenaeum literary award ; 1960
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952.
- Rosenbach, A. S. W.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 616 p. plates. 25 cm.
- Edition:
- [1st ed.]
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland, World Pub. Co. [1960]
- Contents:
- Preface
- A background of pioneering, books, and piety
- Academic life
- The birth of a bookseller
- Steps up the ladder
- The "sentimental library" and the war years
- The Perry Shakespearean Collection and the death of George D. Smith
- The conquest of England
- The doctor and prices rise
- More public but more important private buying
- More grist for his mill, grom the Gutenberg Bible to Joyce's Ulysses
- Huntington et al., but chiefly Huntington
- Buying, selling, and living like a king
- Clawson sells, but the rest of the "boys" buy
- Books and bidders
- The man who bought Alice in wonderland
- The man who sold Alice in wonderland and dined with the president
- How high is up?
- Counter to the trend
- Lots of smoke, but little fire
- The depression babies, a new generation of collectors
- The collector's luck of Dr. R
- The trough of the depression
- Happy days are almost here again
- Sixty years old and famous
- A flood of collections into the auction market
- The glow of the Jones Library in an Indian summer
- The first signs of sickness and apathy
- The unseating of the king
- Patches of sunlight in the clouding sky
- A birthday, the Bay Psalm book, and bad blood
- "Then boast no more your mighty deeds"
- Index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Literary Award copy inscribed by the authors.
- OCLC:
- 573832
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