Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms (Classic Reprint)
| Preis: | 16.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Bruno, Guido) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms These sketches appeared originally in Pearson´s Magazine, Bruno´s Weekly and the Book Hunter, and I make grateful acknowledgment for permission to reprint. On reading the proofs, I feel I have not done justice to my bookselling friends. I wandered into their shops, I browsed among their books, I listened to their talk and wrote it down... pictures not studies, impressions not descriptions. Some of my friends have since passed on to a better world and in these pages will be found perhaps the only record of their useful and laborious lives. This, I believe, is one excuse for the existence of my little book. In the April issue, 1917, of Pearson´s appeared an article of mine telling about that wonderstore of Brentano´s in New York about the late Deutschberger and about other old-time booksellers of Fourth Avenue and Union Square. I was unable to procure a copy of this magazine and therefore had to omit this important story in this compilation. While in Detroit recently I met the charming Mr. Higgins, dean of Michigan´s booksellers, and he objected to my statement in one of my articles: "Detroit has not one second-hand Book Shop." I gladly take it back. Mr. Higgins has a whole houseful of gems and 27 packing boxes filled with rare first editions and scarce Americana. His three shops would make our metropolitan friends justly envious. When I wrote years ago about Detroit´s bookshops I had not met Walter MacKee, who holds open house in Sheehan´s and is not only a good bookman but also a talented comedian. I had not signed my name in Mr. La Belle´s guestbook in MacCaully Brothers´ store where authors passing Detroit are made welcome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
