Stern and Leona Rostenberg became widely known in the late 1990s while in their late eighties when their memoir on the rare book trade, Old Books, Rare Friends became a best seller.
Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern Papers at Columbia University
January 01, 1970
madeleine, stern, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, september. This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Madeleine B Stern news newspapers books scholar JSTOR September 2015 Learn how and when to remove this message Madeleine Bettina Stern July 1 1912 August 18 2007 born in New York New York was an independent scholar and rare book dealer She graduated from Barnard College in 1932 with a B A in English literature She received her M A in English literature from Columbia University in 1934 Stern was particularly known for her work on the writer Louisa May Alcott She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1943 to write a biography of Alcott which was eventually published in 1950 In 1945 she and her friend Leona Rostenberg opened Rostenberg amp Stern Books Rostenberg and Stern were active members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America at a time when few women were members 1 The pair lived and worked in Rostenberg s house in the Bronx They were known for creating unique rare book catalogs 2 In 1960 Stern helped found the New York Antiquarian Book Fair 3 Stern and Leona Rostenberg became widely known in the late 1990s while in their late eighties when their memoir on the rare book trade Old Books Rare Friends became a best seller Contents 1 Books by Madeleine B Stern 2 Books co authored by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B Stern 3 Books edited by Madeleine B Stern 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksBooks by Madeleine B Stern editThe Life of Margaret Fuller 1942 Louisa May Alcott 1950 revised editions published in 1971 and 1996 Purple Passage The Life of Mrs Frank Leslie 1955 revised edition 1970 Imprints on History Book Publishers and American Frontiers 1956 We the Women Career Firsts of Nineteenth Century America 1963 So Much in a Lifetime The Story of Dr Isabel Barrows 1964 Queen of Publishers Row Mrs Frank Leslie 1965 The Pantarch A Biography of Stephen Pearl Andrews 1968 Heads and Headlines The Phrenological Fowlers 1971 Books and Book People in Nineteenth Century America 1978 Sherlock Holmes Rare Book Collector 1981 A Phrenological Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Americans 1982 The Game s a Head A Phrenological Case Study of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle 1983 Antiquarian Bookselling in the United States A History from the Origins to the 1940s 1985 Nicholas Gouin Dufief of Philadelphia Franco American Bookseller 1776 1834 The Philobiblon Club 1988 ISBN 0 9620 7730 5 Studies in the Franco American Booktrade during the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries 1994 The Feminist Alcott Stories of a Woman s Power 1996 Louisa May Alcott From Blood amp Thunder to Hearth and Home 1998 Books co authored by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B Stern editOld and Rare Thirty Years in the Book Business 1974 Between Boards New Thoughts on Old Books 1978 Bookman s Quintet Five Catalogues about Books Bibliography Printing History Booksellers Libraries Presses Collectors 1979 Quest Book Guest Book A Biblio Folly 1993 Connections Ourselves Our Books 1994 Old Books in the Old World Reminiscences of Book buying Abroad 1996 Old Books Rare Friends Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion 1997 New Worlds in Old Books 1999 Books Have Their Fates 2001 Bookends Two Women One Enduring Friendship 2001 From Revolution to Revolution Perspectives on Publishing and Bookselling 1501 2001 2002 Books edited by Madeleine B Stern editBehind a Mask The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott 1975 Plots and Counterplots More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott 1976 in paperback A Marble Woman 1976 Louisa s Wonder Book An Unknown Alcott Juvenile With an Introduction and Bibliography 1975 A Double Life Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott 1988 and others See also editAntiquarian book trade in the United States Books in the United StatesReferences edit Fox Margalit August 25 2007 Madeleine B Stern Bookseller and Sleuth Dies at 95 The New York Times Retrieved 3 January 2015 Shine Cathleen December 30 2007 Madeleine Stern Literary Life The New York Times Retrieved 3 January 2015 Fox Margalit August 25 2007 Madeleine B Stern Bookseller and Sleuth Dies at 95 The New York Times Retrieved 3 January 2015 External links editMadeleine B Stern Collections in the L Tom Perry Special Collections Harold B Lee Library Brigham Young University Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B Stern Papers at Columbia University Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Madeleine B Stern amp oldid 1163113133, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
