quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket
1997 · New York
by Rostenberg, Leona and Madeleine Stern
New York: Doubleday, 1997. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. small 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xii, 275+(1). First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
Autobiography and antiquarian bookselling. The New York rare book dealers, bibliographers and biographers, Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine, tell of their early years in New York, their entry into the antiquarian book trade, their own roles as authors, encounters with other booksellers, book-hunting in Europe, etc., with some bibliographic sleuthing and accounts of various interesting rare books. Prefaced with a bibliography of Rostenberg and Stern. With many photographic illustrations. Index. (Inventory #: 54382)
Autobiography and antiquarian bookselling. The New York rare book dealers, bibliographers and biographers, Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine, tell of their early years in New York, their entry into the antiquarian book trade, their own roles as authors, encounters with other booksellers, book-hunting in Europe, etc., with some bibliographic sleuthing and accounts of various interesting rare books. Prefaced with a bibliography of Rostenberg and Stern. With many photographic illustrations. Index. (Inventory #: 54382)