Bookends: Two Women, One Enduring Friendship

Rostenberg, Leona G, and Stern, Madeleine, and Stern, Madeleine B

ISBN 10: 0743202457 / ISBN 13: 9780743202459

Published by Free Press, New York, NY, 2001

About this Item

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. HC 446.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0059752

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bookends: Two Women, One Enduring Friendship
• Publisher: Free Press, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743202457
• ISBN 13: 9780743202459
• Binding: Hard cover
• Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket.

About this title

Synopsis

"Bookends support each other and come in pairs." So have the rare book dealers Rostenberg and Stern, who share their German- Jewish backgrounds, 50-year personal and professional relationship, and thoughts on the changing book world and aging. Rostenberg is a past president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association. Includes photos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Author

Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern have managed their rare book business for more than fifty years. Madeleine Stern has written fourteen books, including biographies of Margaret Fuller and Louisa May Alcott. Leona, a former president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, has published five books on seventeenth-century printing and publishing in England. They have also coauthored nine books. They live in New York City.