Taking over half a city block and with over three and half floors and two point five million books in the store (in addition to another quarter million books in a warehouse in Brooklyn), Strand’s slogan of “18 miles of books” sounds less like hyperbole and more a...
Laurence Roth | Jan 29, 2015
In late 1919 Frances Steloff came upon a vacant basement store front on 45th Street in New York City. That day, she went into work at Fredrick Loeser’s Department store in the rare books section and told her boss, George Michke, that she was going to rent out the...
Laurence Roth | Sep 30, 2013
In 1920, Frances Steloff opened Gotham Art and Book Mart, a culturally strong and historically significant bookstore in New York City. The store itself had four different locations that attracted several generations of new writers and old readers, as well as...
Laurence Roth | Sep 12, 2013