Old and rare : thirty years in the book business. [30] [Morningside heights; Strasbourg am Rhein; Five years in Siberia; Incunabulum; Books After the Blitz; British Succession; English Basements; Continental Coups d'Oeil; New York; Checklist of Old

New York : Schram ; London : Prior, 1974., 1974. Very Good. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; 234 pp. ; illustrated ; ISBN:0839001304 ; LC: Z286.A55R67 ; Dewey: 658.809070573 ; LCCN: 74-8970 ; OCLC: 181818298 ; brown cloth with gold lettering, in brown, red and white pictorial dustjacket ; 12 pages of black an d white photographs with slight edge wear at gutters; slight foxing, slight knock ; "From the Renaissance to a refugee-bookseller's Manhattan office, to an old house in the Bronx, the authors trace the engrossing and sometimes hilarious story of th e founding of the business and partnership [of Leona Rostenberg Books] that were to bring them lasting and fruitful associations with booksellers, librarians and collectors throughout the world...The authors vividly convey the fascination of the search...from an entire library of Italian Renaissance books in a suburban house to single rarities or sleepers: modest calfbound volumes printed at clandestine, subversive presses, flimsy-looking pamphlets that once shook the world, political manifestos, reform and revolution, psychiatry and modern science--a panorama of new ideas in dust-laden books published between 1500 and 1800." ; VG/VG