Corner Book Shop (New York, N. Y.)

The Corner Book Shop, 102 Fourth Ave, NYC, was founded by Eleanor Lowenstein in 1940. It specialized primarily in books on food, cookery, and wine; other specialties were theater, radio, television, puppetry, crime, and psychology. Lowenstein, a Cornell graduate and former social worker, became an internationally renowned expert on cookbooks, and edited two revised editions of Waldo Lincoln's bibliography, American Cookery Books, published by the American Antiquarian Society, 1954 and 1972.

From the description of Records, 1940-1980 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006551