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Edward Eberstadt & Sons - Rare Booksellers of Western Americana (Paperback)
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Edward Eberstadt & Sons - Rare Booksellers of Western Americana (Paperback)
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An unlikely bookseller in New York City became the leading dealer
in rare Western Americana for most of the twentieth century. After
working in western-U.S. and South American gold mines at the turn
of the twentieth century, Edward Eberstadt (1883-1958) returned to
his home in New York City in 1907. Through luck and happenstance,
he purchased an old book for fifty cents that turned out to be a
rare sixteenth-century Mexican imprint. From this bit of
serendipity, Eberstadt quickly became one of the leading western
Americana rare book dealers. In this book Michael Vinson tells the
story of how Edward Eberstadt & Sons developed its legendary
book collection, which formed the backbone of many of today's top
western Americana archives. Although the firm's business records
have not survived, Edward and his sons, Charles and Lindley, were
all prodigious letter writers, and nearly every collector kept his
or her correspondence. Drawing upon these letters and on his own
extensive experience in the rare book trade, Vinson gives the
reader a vivid sense of how the commerce in rare books and
manuscripts unfolded during the era of the Eberstadts, particularly
in the relationships between dealers and customers. He explores the
backstory that scholars of art history and museology have pursued
in recent decades: the assembling of cultural treasures, their
organization for use, and the establishment of institutions to
support that use. His work describes the important role this key
bookselling firm played in the western Americana trade from the
early 1900s to Eberstadt & Sons' dissolution in 1975. From Yale
University and the American Antiquarian Society to the Newberry
Library and the Huntington Library, the firm of Edward Eberstadt
& Sons has left its mark in western Americana repositories
across the nation. Told here for the first time, the Eberstadt
story reveals how one family's business and legacy have shaped the
study of the American West.
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