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The Booksellers

Rare book sellers and collectors are helping to keep the printed word alive by preserving the delicacy and tactility of books. The elegant and entertaining D.W. Young 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. Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean and Gay Talese are among the distinguished visitors who believe in the object's wonder and the content's eternal value.

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