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 ...
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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.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x0x9; Oak Knoll Press, 1996; "First published..." stated, no additional printings indicated. VG+ hardcover in VG+ dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Unclipped dust jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. From a private collection (NOT ex-library). Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 175pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome and tight first edition of these journal excerpts from the grand dames of American antiquarian bookselling, a followup to their popular "Old & Rare: Forty Years in the Book Business." This lovely copy bears a fine, archival, decorative-edged bookplate signed by Rostenberg in black fineline and Stern in black ballpoint on the front flyleaf. An outstanding copy.
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Fine. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s) Signed Limited Without Limitation Number. Beautiful Copy. Signed by Both Grand Dames of Rare Books.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. #52 of 350 copies-signed by both authors and in a slip case/as new condition. Glued binding. Paper over boards. Product in slip-sleeve. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.