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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/madeline-b-stern/old_books_rare_friends.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/madeline-b-stern/old_books_rare_friends_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="Old Books, Rare Friends" alt ="Old Books, Rare Friends"/></a><br//>Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes &amp; Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern are renowned for unlocking the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder" stories on subjects like transvestitism, hashish smoking, and feminism.<br><i>Old Books, Rare Friends</i> describes their mutual passion for books and literary sleuthing as they take us on their earliest European book buying jaunts. Using what they call Finger-spitzengef&uuml;hl, the art of evaluating antiquarian books by handling, experience, and instinct, we are treated to some of their greatest discoveries amid the mildewed basements of London's booksellers after the Blitz. We experience...]]></description>
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