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Old and Rare : Thirty Years in the Book Business
by Rostenberg, Leona; & Madeleine B. Stern
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0839001304
- ISBN 13
- 9780839001300
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York / London: Abner Schram / George Prior, 1974. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is price clipped with 4 tiny closed tears. NOT a library discard. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are crisp and creamy white. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Memoirs of two New York women who have been scholars and antiquarian booksellers for more than fifty years. Chronicled here are their exciting start in the rare book business, annual European book-buying jaunts, extraordinary discoveries at home and abroad, etc. A delight of irresistible humor and savvy. Illustrated with 12 pages of photos. Index. Bound in the original brown cloth, stamped in shiny gold. Complete with dust jacket. Laid-in is a copy of a 4-page article about Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern by Joel Silver from the April 14, 1997 issue of AB Bookmans' Weekly. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. (x), 234pp.
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017555
- Title
- Old and Rare : Thirty Years in the Book Business
- Author
- Rostenberg, Leona; & Madeleine B. Stern
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0839001304
- ISBN 13
- 9780839001300
- Publisher
- Abner Schram / George Prior
- Place of Publication
- New York / London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
- Size
- 8vo. (x), 234pp
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Henderson, Nevada
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About About Books
About Books (Genny and Michael Winne, proprietors, formerly of Parsippany, New Jersey) has been selling rare and OP books since 1985. Besides book fairs and mail-order catalogues, long-time collectors and dealers will remember our lengthy For Sale ads in the Antiquarian Bookman and similar magazines. Our inventory of over 40,000 volumes is especially strong in the specialties listed, but contains fine books in a variety of other fields as well. Because most of our books are stored in protective boxes, rather than on shelves, they cannot be viewed as a whole. If you wish to visit us to examine specific titles, please provide 24 hours notice and we will make them available for your inspection. Phone calls to (702) 750-2722 are welcome, but please, only between the hours of 8am and 10pm (west coast time).
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Remainder Mark
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- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
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- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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