Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion - Hardcover

Rostenberg, Leona; Stern, Madeleine

 
9780385485142: Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 038548514X ISBN 13: 9780385485142
Verlag: Doubleday, 1997

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Two octogenarian antiquarian booksellers, friends and business partners for fifty years, reflect on their career as literary detectives searching out rare books, including their landmark discovery of the pseudonymous works of Louisa May Alcott.

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lcott 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 in much the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern unlocked the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder" stories on subjects like transvestitism, hashish smoking, and feminism.



Old Books, Rare Friends describes their mutual passion for books and literary sleuthing as they take us on their earliest European book buying jaunts. Using what they call ""Finger-spitzengefuhl,"" the art of evaluating antiquarian books by handling, experience, and instinct, they treat us to some of their greatest discoveries amid the mildewed basements of London's booksellers after the Bl

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Verlag
Doubleday
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
038548514X
ISBN 13 
9780385485142
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
275
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