Background
Mondlin, Marvin was born on July 1, 1927 in Brooklyn. Son of Samuel and Thelma (Schultz) Mondlin.
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Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade Hardcover - November 24, 2003
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010EWAXFA/?tag=2022091-20
Appraisals: A Guide for Bookmen
(Book by Mondlin, Marvin)
Book by Mondlin, Marvin
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0965679802/?tag=2022091-20
Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade
( The city has eight million stories, and this one unfold...)
The city has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of 14th Street in Manhattan, mostly on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades, from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived the New York Booksellers’ Row, or, more commonly, Book Row. This illustrated memoir features historical photographs and is richly anecdotal, and as American as the rags-to-riches tale of the Strand, which began its life as a book stall on Eighth Street and today houses 2.5 million volumes in twelve miles of space. A story cast with colorful characters: like the book dealer George D. Smith; the irascible Russian-born book hunter Peter Stammer, the visionary Theodore C. Schulte; Lou Cohen, founder of the still-surviving Argosy Book Store; gentleman bookseller George Rubinowitz and his legendarily shrewish wife, Jenny, Book Row remembers names and places that all lovers, readers, buyers, sellers, and collectors of books should never forget. Rising rents, street crime, urban redevelopment, television are many of the reasons for the demise of Book Row, but in this volume, based on interviews with dozens of the people who bought, sold, and collected there, it lives again.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786713054/?tag=2022091-20
Marvin Mondlin
Edit Profileretail executive antiquarian book dealer
Marvin Mondlin, American Retail executive, antiquarian book dealer. Member Antiquarian Booksellers Association American, Appraisers Association American, Bibliographical Society American, Bibliographical Society London, American Photographic History Society, European Society History of Photography, The Ephemera Society American, The Typophiles.
Education
Student, Cornell University, 1945. Student of Aesthetic Realism, with Eli Siegel, 1945—1968. Student, City College of New York, 1948.
Student, Brooklyn College, 1969—1971.
Career
Partner, Amory Books, New York City, 1953-1959; clerk, Strand Book Store, New York City, 1951; estate book buyer, Strand Book Store, New York City, 1959-1971, 74-76; senior executive vice president, Strand Book Store, New York City, since 1976. Business manager Definition Press., New York City, 1957. Cataloger U. Catholic de Louvain, Belgium, 1972.
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Works
book
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Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade
( The city has eight million stories, and this one unfold...)
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Appraisals: A Guide for Bookmen
(Book by Mondlin, Marvin)
- Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade
- Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade Hardcover - November 24, 2003
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Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade
Membership
Member Antiquarian Booksellers Association American, Appraisers Association American, Bibliographical Society American, Bibliographical Society London, American Photographic History Society, European Society History of Photography, The Ephemera Society American, The Typophiles.
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Married Phyllis Grossman, October 23, 1962 (divorced 1968). 1 child, Gerri; Married Irene Szmulewicz, September 4, 1970.
