Author: Marvin Mondlin & Roy Meador
Foreword: MadelineStern

Publisher/Date: Carroll & Graf (2005, 1st paperback edition)

Format/Condition: NEW softcover book is in fine condition. 405 pages measures 6×9 inches

Description: To a booklover, the only thing that could be more tragic than a lost world is a lost world of books. In New York City, just south of 14th Street in Manhattan, mostly on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue between Union Square and Astor Place, there existed for some eight decades a bibliophiles’ paradise of rare and second-hand bookstores. “There are still used bookstores scattered about the city, but the loss of this unique neighborhood, as Book Row illustrates time and again, is one to be mourned,” opined James Polk in the New York Times. This elegiac volume, by a passionate collector, comes from interviews with dozens upon dozens of the book people who bought, sold, and collected there.