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Bernard M. Rosenthal

Rosenthal, Bernard M.

Bernard M. Rosenthal was born May 5, 1920 in Munich, Germany into a family of antiqutarian booksellers. He immigrated to the United States in 1939. He enrolled in the University of California at Berkeley in 1941 and graduated with a degree in chemistry. Deciding to follow in the family business he established a bookshop in New York in 1953. He was president of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America.