Joe Felcone wrote:
Can anyone provide, or lead me to, the first names of the following
three antiquarian booksellers in New York in 1930:
W___ Nicholls. He and his wife, Norah Nicholls, edited and published a
weekly book trade journal, _The Bookseller and Collector_, and they also
sold books;
T___ Gannon. By 1930 his business was largely run by William Gannon.
E___ F. Bonaventure. By 1930 his business was largely run by Edmond C.
Bonaventure.
I have tried everything I could think of, from Dickinson and Mondlin to
Grolier and Google, without success. Any help would be gratefully
received.
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Joe Felcone,
W. Nicholls could be Edmond William Nicholls
T. Gannon is Thomas Gannon
E.F. Bonaventure is Edmond F. Bonaventure
In case you're wondering how I came to these conclusions, here's my
research:
Edmond William Nicholls:
Instead of Googling "Bookseller and Collector," I used an ambersand and
Googled "Bookseller & Collector." I got a hit on a 1931Time Magazine
article citing Edmond William Nicholls as the editor of the journal,
Bookseller & Collector:
TIME Magazine Archive Article -- -- Jul. 13, 1931
.. To the editor ef the New York Times, Editor Edmond William Nicholls
of Bookseller
& Collector wrote about dial telephones as follows......
Thomas Gannon:
I had help on this one. On his website, The AutoDidact Project, Ralph
Dumain has a wealth of information on NYC booksellers: New York City
Bookshops in the 1930s and 1940s: The Recollections of Walter Goldberg:
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/goldwat2.html
If you open the link and scroll down to (p)153, you will read that
Thomas Gannon was an uptown bookseller who specialized in Sporting
Books. He had two sons in the business: William Gannon and Ambrose
Gannon:
Edmond F. Bonaventure:
I had to speculate on this one. In the 1906 edition of the
International Directory of Booksellers and Bibliophile's Manual, this
bookseller is listed as E.F. Bonaventure, and that may have been how he
was known in the book world. HIs place of business at that time was 6
West 33rd Street, although I believe he later relocated to Fifth Avenue.
On a hunch, I Googled "Edmond F. Bonaventure." I got a hit on a NYC art
dealer by the name of Edmond F. Bonaventure, who, incidentally, had a
son from his first marriage by the name of Edmond C. Bonaventure. I
Googled his son's name and got a hit for the New York Social Blue Book,
which listed a Mrs. Edmond F. Bonaventure and a Mr. Edmond C.
Bonaventure.
Although he never made the New York Social Register himself, I do
believe that Edmond F. Bonaventure is your man.
Cheers,
Jerry Morris,
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