Table of Contents
Preface The Lore and Lure of Book Row xiii
Hymn to Fourth Avenue Eli Siegel xxi
Chapter 1 The Smith a Mighty Bookman Was He: G.D.S. and Bookselling from Fourth Avenue to the Collecting World 1
Chapter 2 An Early Beaux Books Quartet Isaac Mendoza Jacob Abrahams Peter Stammer David Kirschenbaum 19
Chapter 3 Dauber & Pine and the Sparrow Sign Samuel Dauber Nathan S. Pine Alfred F. Goldsmith 39
Chapter 4 Giant Schulte's and a "Ship of Books" Theodore Schulte Philip Pesky Wilfred Pesky Dave Butler Louis Cohen 57
Chapter 5 Book Row and the Booksellers' Associations 77
Chapter 6 Bookselling in the Family Way Samuel Weiser Stanley Gilman Scheinbaum Brothers Other Relatives 95
Chapter 7 A Book Row Odysseus and Other Bookmen True Harry Gold Milton Applebaum Henry Chafetz Sidney Solomon 113
Chapter 8 Their Memories Outlived the Bookshops Ben Jack Rosenzweig George Jenny Rubinowitz 133
Chapter 9 The Winning Pair of Jacks Jack Biblo Jack Tannen 151
Chapter 10 Books 'n Booksellers 'n Book lovers Harold Gertrude Briggs Bernard Kraus Harry Ruth Carp 169
Chapter 11 The Bookseller with Strong Opinions: Remembering, Honoring, Fearing and Enjoying Walter Goldwater 189
Chapter 12 Cookbooks, a Scholar, and the Brussel Scouts Eleanor Lowenstein Louis Schucman The Brussel Brothers 207
Chapter 13 Where Have All the Readers Gone? Haskell Gruberger Leon Kramer Seymour Hacker 231
Chapter 14 Book Row Memories: Buyers, Browsers, and Mourners 253
Chapter 15 The Strand Lives On Benjamin Bass Fred Bass Nancy Bass 283
Chapter 16 The Later Generation Timothy Johns Glenn Horowitz Steve Crowley 307
Chapter 17 Book Row - Past Present Future 325
Epilogue Book Row Forever Redux 343
Acknowledgments 349
References 353
Appendix The Island of Books: A Look Back to the Earliest Decades of Books in New York City 363
Index 387