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Title: remembrance of bookstores past
Review: This book reminds us of a time when bookstores and galleries were part of the New York scene, reflecting and contributing to its vibrant culture. It is also the record of a historical dimension, the physical place where the visual and the written were part of the same intellectual life and available to --if not everyone --at least to a large number of like-minded New Yorkers. For anyone with an interest in urban history the vast bibliography and the illustrations make it required and fascinating reading. It fills a gap in the historical continuum, important for scholars and recommended to anyone who is fascinated by the period, the art, and the city. To those of us who lived with and loved the gallery-bookstore it is a tribute to what we have lost.
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