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Guido Bruno

Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms

Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores, and Auction Rooms by Guido Bruno is about the art of bookselling and the places where books are sold. Bruno writes to teach about bookshops and book auctions. Contents: «The Romance of Buying and Selling Old Things, Auctions as Amusement Places, The Strange Discovery and Disappearance of Stuart's Washington, New York Book Shops, Den of a Pessimist, A Whitman Enthusiast…"
134 afgedrukte pagina’s
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Oorspronkelijke uitgave
2019
Jaar van uitgave
2019
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  • b9949778575citeerde uit4 jaar geleden
    BOOK stores are the intellectual barometers of our cities. Show me where people buy their books and I will tell you what sort of life they lead. Book stores always were and are mirrors of the habits and intellectual preferences of men and women
  • b9949778575citeerde uit4 jaar geleden
    Sure enough we read books, because we want to know what their authors have to say. But the author remains a stranger to us, the book once read is done with forever.
  • b9949778575citeerde uit4 jaar geleden
    The written word, as it flows from the pen, has much of the inspiration, the mental process and the ideals of the writer; the typewritten word tells nothing
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