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This dual memoir of America’s favorite booksellers–the Holmes and Watson of rare books–is a work to treasure, recounting the companionship of two rare friends as their shared passion for old books. of photos.
Old Books, Rare Friends
Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion
$34.50
- Paperback
292 pages
- Release Date
1 June 1998
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Summary
Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The “Holmes & Watson” of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern are renowned for unlocking the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott’s life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published “blood and thunde…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385485159 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385485158 |
| Author: | Madeline B. Stern, Leona Rostenberg |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 292 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 1998 |
| Weight: | 403g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 19mm |
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