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American independent scholar and rare book dealer
Madeleine Bettina Stern (July 1, 1912 – August 18, 2007), born in
New York, New York , was an
independent scholar and
rare book dealer . She graduated from
Barnard College in 1932 with a
B.A. in
English literature . She received her
M.A. in English literature from
Columbia University in 1934. Stern was particularly known for her work on the writer
Louisa May Alcott . She received a
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1943 to write a
biography of Alcott, which was eventually published in 1950. In 1945, she and her friend
Leona Rostenberg opened Rostenberg & Stern Books. Rostenberg and Stern were active members of the
Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America , at a time when few women were members.
[1] The pair lived and worked in Rostenberg's house in the
Bronx . They were known for creating unique rare book catalogs.
[2] In 1960, Stern helped found the New York Antiquarian Book Fair.
[3]
Stern and Leona Rostenberg became widely known in the late 1990s while in their late eighties when their memoir on the rare book trade, Old Books, Rare Friends became a best seller.
Books by Madeleine B. Stern
The Life of
Margaret Fuller , 1942.
Louisa May Alcott , 1950 (revised editions published in 1971 and 1996).
Purple Passage: The Life of
Mrs. Frank Leslie , 1955 (revised edition, 1970).
Imprints on History: Book Publishers and American Frontiers , 1956.
We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America , 1963.
So Much in a Lifetime: The Story of Dr.
Isabel Barrows , 1964.
Queen of Publishers' Row: Mrs. Frank Leslie , 1965.
The Pantarch: A Biography of
Stephen Pearl Andrews , 1968.
Heads and Headlines: The Phrenological Fowlers , 1971.
Books and Book People in Nineteenth-Century America , 1978.
Sherlock Holmes : Rare-Book Collector , 1981.
A Phrenological Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Americans , 1982.
The Game's a Head: A Phrenological Case-Study of Sherlock Holmes and
Arthur Conan Doyle , 1983.
Antiquarian Bookselling in the United States: A History from the Origins to the 1940s , 1985.
Nicholas Gouin Dufief of Philadelphia, Franco-American Bookseller, 1776–1834 , The Philobiblon Club, 1988,
ISBN
0-9620-7730-5 .
Studies in the Franco-American Booktrade during the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries , 1994.
The Feminist Alcott: Stories of a Woman's Power , 1996.
Louisa May Alcott : From Blood & Thunder to Hearth and Home , 1998.
Books co-authored by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern
Old and Rare: Thirty Years in the Book Business , 1974.
Between Boards: New Thoughts on Old Books , 1978.
Bookman's Quintet: Five Catalogues about Books: Bibliography, Printing History, Booksellers, Libraries, Presses, Collectors , 1979.
Quest Book—Guest Book: A Biblio-Folly , 1993.
Connections: Ourselves—Our Books , 1994.
Old Books in the Old World: Reminiscences of Book-buying Abroad , 1996.
Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion , 1997.
New Worlds in Old Books , 1999.
Books Have Their Fates , 2001.
Bookends: Two Women, One Enduring Friendship , 2001.
From Revolution to Revolution: Perspectives on Publishing and Bookselling 1501-2001 , 2002.
Books edited by Madeleine B. Stern
Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott , 1975.
Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott , 1976 (in paperback, A Marble Woman , 1976).
Louisa's Wonder Book-An Unknown Alcott Juvenile; With an Introduction and Bibliography , 1975.
A Double Life: Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott , 1988.
and others.
See also
References
^ Fox, Margalit (August 25, 2007).
"Madeleine B. Stern, Bookseller and Sleuth, Dies at 95" . The New York Times . Retrieved 3 January 2015 .
^ Shine, Cathleen (December 30, 2007).
"Madeleine Stern: Literary Life" . The New York Times . Retrieved 3 January 2015 .
^ Fox, Margalit (August 25, 2007).
"Madeleine B. Stern, Bookseller and Sleuth, Dies at 95" . The New York Times . Retrieved 3 January 2015 .
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