Louis Zucker,Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Hynda Rudd and Ralph DeRose, September 1 & 4, and October 24, 1972, January 25, 1973 and June 1, 1977

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LOUIS ZUCKER #1 worst panics in America. The clientele begged my father to become the successor. so he and his brother, his younger brother, my uncle, started up the new firm, Hyman-Zucker, which lasted until my uncle was no longer able to work in the mid-1940s. My father had to quit in the mid-1930s, and he died in 1936. But my uncle went on as long as he could. By the mid-194 0 s, the firm had, "disintegrated" is what I wanted to say, yes. There was also a change in the life style of the American rich. In the late nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century, you might say up until World War II, when an American became rich, he chose to appear illustrious. To appeal to the manor-born by engaging a bookseller like Rosenbach to collect a library for him and maybe specializing in something. "What would you like to specialize in, sir?" Maybe he would know or maybe he would say, "I will leave it to you. What is an open field for specializing in book collecting?" Then, say, Rosenbach would help him build a great collection of Lincoln material, or Thackeray material, or Dickens material, or whatever, and bring many of those books to a binder like Paulson and Nicholson or Hyman-Zucker to rebind very fine leather bindings. This was the mode. I remember talking with one of these old booksellers in Philadelphia in the early 6