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Frances Steloff: memoirs of a bookseller

Title
Frances Steloff: memoirs of a bookseller [motion picture] / Deborah Dickson.
Publication
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY : D. Dickson, 1985.

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Additional Authors
  • Dickson, Deborah.
  • Gotham Book Mart.
Description
1 film reel (28 min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.
Summary
An intimate portrait of Frances Steloff, founder and force behind the renowned Gotham Book Mart, a center for avant-garde literature and literati since 1920. Begun with $100 and thirty books, the shop soon became a gathering place for writers such as Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Dylan Thomas, and others.
Subject
  • Steloff, Frances, 1887-
  • Booksellers and bookselling
  • Women > Biography
Credits (note)
  • Director, Deborah Dickson.
Title
Frances Steloff: memoirs of a bookseller [motion picture] / Deborah Dickson.
Imprint
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY : D. Dickson, 1985.
Credits
Director, Deborah Dickson.
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Dickson, Deborah.
Gotham Book Mart.
Branch Call Number
M16 3730 F
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