ADVENTURES IN
AMERICAN BOOK SHOPS

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BOOKS BY GUIDO BRUNO

Eternal Moments
Sentimental Studies
A Night in Greenwich Village
Fragments From Greenwich Village
The Sacred Band
Moore Versus Harris
Adventures in American Bookshops




To be published in December,
Stories By the Way
A Handful of Contemporaries
Near the Night Lamp

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Adventures in American
Bookshops, Antique Stores
and Auction Rooms

By Guido Bruno


Detroit: The Douglas Book Shop

1922

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Copyright, 1922,
by
GUIDO BRUNO

Printed in the United States of America


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To RAGNA


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One thousand copies of this book have been printed and the typedistributed.

No.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface9
The Romance of Buying and Selling Old Things11
Auctions as Amusement Places24
The Strange Discovery and Disappearance of Stuart’s Washington30
New York Book Shops39
Den of a Pessimist
A Whitman Enthusiast
An Optimist
A Gambler
Bookshops of Enthusiasts
Book Dealers in Cobwebbed Corners
Specialists in Excitement
Dealers in Literary Property71
Autog
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