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Guido Bruno. Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms
Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms
Table of Contents
Preface
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
Auctions As Amusement Places
The Strange Discovery and Disappearance of Stuart’s Washington
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
The Romance of a Chicago Book Dealer
Quite a Romance
Frank Morris and His Famous Shop
Powner’s Book Shop
Chicago Revisited
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
Small Town Stuff
New York Book Magnates
Gabriel Wells
Mr. Drake
Mitchell Kennerley
Possessor of 60,000 Original Drawings
Snapshots in Art Galleries on Fifth Avenue
Daniel’s Gallery
At Coady’s Gallery
Stieglitz’ 291
The Sunwise Turn Bookshop
At Ehrich’s Gallery
’Way Down in Greenwich Village
The Paint Box
President Harding’s Favorite Book
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