New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1996. 176 pages; b&w illustrations. Young women book hunting in London, Oxford, Paris, Vienna The Hague, Basle, Zurich, Geneva, Milan post-World War II. Cobblestone steets lined with bookshops. Their partneship ran more than 50 years. Limited to 350 numbered copies; this is No. 1 signed by both women. As new in a slipcase matching the boards. Limited Numbered Edition. Brown cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Language: ENG.

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Title

Old Books in the Old World

Publisher

Oak Knoll Books, New Castle, DE

Publication Date

1996

Language

English

ISBN 10

1884718183

ISBN 13

9781884718182

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

Limited Numbered Edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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This is a charming account of postwar book buying abroad by the "Holmes and Watson" of antiquarian books.
After the war, Americans went abroad for European culture, food and art, but Rostenberg & Stern, the Grand Dames of the antiquarian bookselling world, went to Europe to buy old books. Old Books in the Old World glows with the details of their book-buying trips abroad between 1947 and 1957. Filled with tales of steamships, cobblestone streets and dusty rare bookshops, this illustrated journal draws from original diaries and letters and contemporary recollections.
Full of history and bookish tales, this personal insight into postwar Europe and the antiquarian book-selling scene will be of interest both to the seasoned bibliophile and to the casual reader.

Review

If your pulse increases inexplicably at the sight of a used bookstore, if your heart leaps like a hungry weasel when you encounter a rare first edition that has been erroneously priced at $5.00, this collection of journal entries and letters of two American book dealers in Post-War Europe is certain to delight you. Although I personally would have enjoyed this book more if it had been fleshed out more completely, its presentation--whether by intention or chance--has the same serendipitous and chaotic feeling as rummaging through the bookstores and bookstalls of Europe.

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