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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 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2019
Publication year
2019
Publisher
Good Press
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Quotes

  • b9949778575has quoted4 years ago
    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
  • b9949778575has quoted4 years ago
    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.
  • b9949778575has quoted4 years ago
    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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