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Title:
The booksellers
Alternate title:
Book sellers
Summary:
Profiles the New York community of rare book collectors and dealers.

D.W. Young's elegant and absorbing documentary is a lively tour of New York's book world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers, past and present: from the Park Avenue Armory's annual Antiquarian Book Fair, where original editions can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars; to the Strand and Argosy bookstores, still standing against all odds; to the beautifully crammed apartments of collectors and buyers. The film, executive produced by Parker Posey, features a range of commentators, including Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, Gay Talese, and a community of dedicated book dealers and collectors who strongly believe in the wonder of the object and what it holds within.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 2019.

Wide screen (1.78:1, 16x9).

Special features: A body of language ; The caretaker: in the studio with Cara Schlesinger ; Some further thoughts from William Reese.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher:
Kino Lorber,
Publication Date:
2020

2019
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2020]

©2019
Call Number:
DVD 381.45 BOOKSELLERS
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