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Hess relocated City Books to Pittsburgh's Allegheny West neighborhood in 2016 where it became the North Side's first independent bookstore. [7] The new location retained the original bookshelves, artwork, neon sign, and core inventory. [8] Inside the bookstore is a desk for a writer-in-residence and micro-gallery in the rear.
AB Bookman's Weekly was a weekly trade publication begun in 1948 by Sol. M. Malkin as a publication of the R. R. Bowker Company, publisher of Books in Print and other book trade and library periodicals. In its glory days between the early 1950s and the early 1990s, AB was "the best marketplace for out-of-print books in North America."
Irvin Ungar (born 1948) is an American former pulpit rabbi and antiquarian bookseller, considered the foremost expert [1] [2] on the artist Arthur Szyk.Ungar is credited as “the man behind the Szyk renaissance” [3] who pulled Szyk “out of obscurity” [4] through scholarship, exhibitions, and publications spanning nearly three decades.
The word antiquarian could also be used to describe a person who collects rare books or other antique items. Two key figures who have written a great deal on the U.S. antiquarian book trade specifically are Leona Rostenberg (1908–2005) and Madeleine B. Stern (1912–2007), both of whom were also in the business of collecting and selling rare ...
They recruited many contemporary authors, such as Israel Regardie, who were customers. The shop's stock also provided them with rare and out-of-print books that they could reprint. The late 1960s saw the bookstore go through another move, this time into two floors at 734 Broadway, not far from Astor Place. [4]
Maggs Bros. Ltd. is one of the longest-established antiquarian booksellers in the world, established in 1853 by Uriah Maggs, [1] born c. 1828 in Midsomer Norton, Somerset. All four of Uriah's sons eventually joined the business, taking over on his retirement in 1894.
At the age of 9, Rosenbach began helping out in the shop of his maternal uncle, Moses Polock (May 14, 1817 – August 16, 1903), who was a well-known and somewhat eccentric antiquarian bookseller. Polock's famous shop was located at 406 Commerce Street in Philadelphia. [8]
Herbick & Held Printing Company was an American high-end financial printer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that did business with many prominent companies such as US Steel, Mellon Bank and Gulf Oil, printing annual reports and other financial documents. It also printed many volumes for the University of Pittsburgh Press.