Adventures in American Bookshops
by Guido Bruno
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bruno, Guido, 1884-1942
- Title
- Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms
- Credits
- Produced by Chuck Greif, ellinora and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Antiquarian booksellers -- United States
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 56811
- Release Date
- March 22, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms
- 2.Preface
- 3.The Romance of Buying and Selling Old Things — The Poor Man’s Hunting Ground — The Open Air Exchange on Baxter Street — The Salvation Army — Connoisseurs
- 4.Auctions As Amusement Places
- 5.The Strange Discovery and Disappearance of Stuart’s Washington
- 6.In New York Book Shops — The Den of a Pessimist — A Whitman Enthusiast — An Optimist — A Gambler — II. — The Oxford Book Shop — Washington Square Book Shop — A German Bookseller — Mr. Gerhardt’s Den — III. — Casement’s Book Emporium — The Madison Book Store — IV. — Mr. Kirschenbaum’s Shop — A Specialist in Excitement — The Man Who Knows His Books — The Farmer-Bookseller — A Night Bird — Mr. Stammer, Their Great Patron — Dealers in Literary Property — The Market Price of Some Autographs — Mr. Madigan’s Interesting Shop — The Poet’s Income — Schulte’s Book Store — George D. Smith, Speculator in Literary Property — Mr. Cadigan of Brentano’s — Young Madigan
- 7.The Romance of a Chicago Book Dealer — Quite a Romance — Frank Morris and His Famous Shop — Powner’s Book Shop
- 8.Chicago Revisited
- 9.In Boston — Old Cornhill — Burnham’s Antique Book Store — Lauriat’s — A New and Evil Spirit — Book Shops for Boys and Girls — Books in Ice Box — The Mysterious Book Shop
- 10.Small Town Stuff — New York Book Magnates — Gabriel Wells — Mr. Drake — Mitchell Kennerley — Possessor of 60,000 Original Drawings
- 11.Snapshots in Art Galleries on Fifth Avenue — Daniel’s Gallery — At Coady’s Gallery — Stieglitz’ 291 — The Sunwise Turn Bookshop — At Ehrich’s Gallery
- 12.’Way Down in Greenwich Village — The Paint Box
- 13.President Harding’s Favorite Book
- 14.INDEX
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