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This is a charming account of postwar book buying abroad by the "Holmes and Watson" of antiquarian books.
After the war, Americans went abroad for European culture, food and art, but Rostenberg & Stern, the Grand Dames of the antiquarian bookselling world, went to Europe to buy old books. Old Books in the Old World glows with the details of their book-buying trips abroad between 1947 and 1957. Filled with tales of steamships, cobblestone streets and dusty rare bookshops, this illustrated journal draws from original diaries and letters and contemporary recollections.
Full of history and bookish tales, this personal insight into postwar Europe and the antiquarian book-selling scene will be of interest both to the seasoned bibliophile and to the casual reader.
After the war, Americans went abroad for European culture, food and art, but Rostenberg & Stern, the Grand Dames of the antiquarian bookselling world, went to Europe to buy old books. Old Books in the Old World glows with the details of their book-buying trips abroad between 1947 and 1957. Filled with tales of steamships, cobblestone streets and dusty rare bookshops, this illustrated journal draws from original diaries and letters and contemporary recollections.
Full of history and bookish tales, this personal insight into postwar Europe and the antiquarian book-selling scene will be of interest both to the seasoned bibliophile and to the casual reader.
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If your pulse increases inexplicably at the sight of a used bookstore, if your heart leaps like a hungry weasel when you encounter a rare first edition that has been erroneously priced at $5.00, this collection of journal entries and letters of two American book dealers in Post-War Europe is certain to delight you. Although I personally would have enjoyed this book more if it had been fleshed out more completely, its presentation--whether by intention or chance--has the same serendipitous and chaotic feeling as rummaging through the bookstores and bookstalls of Europe.
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- PublisherOak Knoll Pr
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1884718183
- ISBN 13 9781884718182
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