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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

The Oxford Book Shop

Washington Square Book Shop

A German Bookseller

Mr. Gerhardt’s Den

Casement’s Book Emporium

The Madison Book Store

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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