Old Rare Books (Paperback)

Fifty years is a long time to be friends, let alone business partners, and this joint memoir by Stern and Rostenberg, legends in the antiquarian book scene for most of those years as well as prolific authors, is a treat for rare-book lovers. Devotion to the printed page began young for both. Rostenberg remembers as a child "sniffing the musty odor of books, a smell that was somehow warm and comforting." The authors met at the Hebrew Technical School for Girls in Manhattan and have stayed together...

Fifty years is a long time to be friends, let alone business partners, and this joint memoir by Stern and Rostenberg, legends in the antiquarian book scene for most of those years as well as prolific authors, is a treat for rare-book lovers. Devotion to the printed page began young for both. Rostenberg remembers as a child "sniffing the musty odor of books, a smell that was somehow warm and comforting." The authors met at the Hebrew Technical School for Girls in Manhattan and have stayed together...