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“Old books, rare friends” by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern

“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 thoughts and passion for literature much in the same way.”

Taken from Amazon.

See also:

http://www.randomhouse.com/book/173019/old-books-rare-friends-by-madeline-b-stern-and-leona-rostenberg

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/magazine/30stern-t.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Rostenberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_B._Stern

The selected titles are a sample of the recently loaned International Institute Library materials.

If you are interested in seeing or reading this recommendation, you can check its availability in the IIE library catalog.

Old books, rare friends: two literary sleuths and their shared passion / Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern. — New York: Doubleday, 1997. — 275 p. ; 22cm

ISBN-0 385-48515-8

Z 473 .R77 R65 1997

R. 89484