Old Books in the Old World: Reminiscences of Book Buying Abroad

by Rostenberg, Leona; Stern, Madeleine B

First Edition

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Book desription: New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering. 8vo. viii, 175pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index. This is a charming account of postwar book buying abroad by the 'Holmes and Watson' of antiquarian books...Filled with tales of steamships, cobblestone streets and dusty rare bookshops from original diaries, letters, and contemporary recollections" of the authors' bookbuying trips abroad between 1947 and 1957 (from the flap). Very readable and richly illustrated. An "as new" copy of this biblio-adventure.

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