CHICAGO BOOK Lovers Bookstore THE SEVEN STAIRS Signed STUART BRENT BIBLIOPHILES

Description: THE SEVEN STAIRS by Stuart BrentPublished by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Inscribed & Signed by author on ffep, to Helen Huguenor Lyman - a pioneer in the field of adult literacy. Very good hardcover, in very good unclipped dustjacket in archival mylar wrapper. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Small 8vo, 205 pages. Previous owner’s name to inside flap of dj. Memoirs of well known bookstore owner, Stuart Brent, who began his bookstore, 'The Seven Stairs' on the northside of Chicago in the 1950's.Stuart Brent, founded his first bookstore, The Seven Stairs, on Rush Street in Chicago, using a GI loan and money he borrowed from his brother-in-law. In 1952 Brent moved the bookstore to Michigan Avenue, where it was eventually designated a landmark by The City of Chicago, and for seven years during the 1960’s, he had a television show called Books and Brent. Brent had a lively literary life with many famous authors, Nelson Algren, Studs Terkel, Ben Hecht, Jack Conroy, and every author he could possibly lasso into the store. He gave Algren the title for The Man with the Golden Arm. He got arrested one night with Louis Armstrong, trying to break down the wall of his own bookstore.Brent the bookstore in 1994. He passed away in June of 2010, he was 98 years old. Loc: B2

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Location: Tonawanda, New York

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