The Booksellers
2020 · 99 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 1,942 VOTES · DIR. D.W. Young
Overview
What once seemed like an esoteric world now seems essential to our culture: the community of rare book dealers and collectors who, in their love of the delicacy and tactility of books, are helping to keep the printed word alive. D.W. Young’s elegant and entertaining documentary, executive produced by Parker Posey, is a lively tour of New York’s book world, 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 book stores, still standing against all odds; to the beautifully crammed apartments of collectors and buyers. The film features a litany of special guests, including Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, Gay Talese, and a community of dedicated book dealers who strongly believe in the wonder of the object and the everlasting importance of what’s inside.
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00:00:30 "You said that we owe literature almost everything we are
00:05:04 What rare book dealers really do is inculcate neophytes
00:09:19 and they had an enormously long career
00:13:13 since I put it on the shelf 15 years ago.
00:17:37 "Don't ask the girls to go into business with you."
00:21:42 and I have a pretty good imagination at times.
00:25:43 where somebody has put their life energy into it,
00:29:24 and they've had to pivot or die.
00:33:28 there's things written on hotel stationery.
00:38:23 My parents were interested in antiques,
00:43:06 that rare books go through vogues.
00:47:20 That's why, when you acquire things,
00:51:01 Oh, I guess there are pictures.
00:54:39 It's nepotism.
00:58:32 I deny you the right of ownership.
01:02:42 this probably is, you know, if not the largest,
01:06:30 if he's done something worthwhile,
01:10:00 full-time in 2004,
01:13:29 It's the same thing that's happening,
01:17:07 have this crazy sense of nostalgia, right?
01:20:37 and we start living in some kind of
01:24:29 as a younger dealer that I am talking to older dealers
01:28:54 Too bad about the snowstorm.
01:34:55 I'm gonna give it back to you." He never did.
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