My Years at the Gotham Book Mart with Frances Steloff, Proprietor

Steloff opened the Gotham in 1920, starting "a literary salon in the middle of New York City in the most wonderful time of its own history." Among those there: Martha Graham, Christopher Morely, Mencken and Dreiser, and Anaïs Nin. Steloff had her "battles with the censors, the court dates, the time she was actually arrested and only an 11th hour phone call to Bennett Cerf of Random House kept her out of prison." This charming memoir is enriched by the author's wonderment, drinking it all in with such memories as the weekend he "walked all over Manhattan wearing e.e. D. Recollections about the pantheon of writers and artists who passed through her store and how I became a bookmanThe proprietor of the present "The Bookstore" in Lenox, Massachusetts, the author reflects on working early on at the legendary Gotham Book Mart on West 47th Street in New York City. To speak of Frances Steloff's Gotham Book Mart is to remember the entire twenti

48 pages for 11 Bucks???? B.Friendly I just ordered this "book" thinking it would be a book not a 48 page pamphlet.This is ridiculous, selling something like a diary entry. I mean these few pages are also printed in BIG FONT, so it is a scam. Sorry. Big disappointment. From now I'll make sure I check out page numbers to get a bang for my bucks.