Dodd & Livingston

established New York, 1910

Biography"When the members of the firm of Dodd, Mead & Co.
in 1910 decided to devote their energies to the wholesale
publishing business, Robert H. Dodd entered into a
separate partnership with Livingston under the firm
name of Dodd & Livingston. Livingston's remarkable
memory for minute details and his ability to recognize
peculiarities in volumes with which he was unfamiliar
had long been an important asset which did much to
give the house its pre-eminent position among American
dealers in rare old books. These qualities combined with
the instinctive confidence which everyone who dealt
with him felt in his frankness and sincerity gave the new
firm an unassailable position. His visit to London in
1911 strengthened personal friendships with nearly every
British collector of consequence, and put him on the
way to become the best-known bookseller on either side
of the Atlantic"

From WINSHIP, GEORGE PARKER. “LUTHER S. LIVINGSTON: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 8, no. 3/4 (1914): 109–20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24292228.

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