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Bookends : two women, one enduring friendship / Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection Z473.R77 R64 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rostenberg, Leona.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rostenberg, Leona.
- Stern, Madeleine B., 1912-.
- Stern, Madeleine B.
- Antiquarian booksellers--United States--Biography.
- Antiquarian booksellers.
- Book collectors--United States--Biography.
- Book collectors.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 246 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, c2001.
- Summary:
- Rare-book dealers Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern describe their friendship and business partnership, which began in the 1940s, discussing their mothers, their dogs, the men they did not marry, aging, changes in the book trade, and persevering as Jewish women in a "man's world."
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0743202457
- OCLC:
- 45879723
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