Peter Christian Pehrson Books & Manuscripts

[Opening August 2014...call ahead...518.478.3660]
Successor to Stoddard Corner Bookshop, Hudson, NY

A collector’s gallery for the discerning reader, Peter Christian Pehrson–Nonfiction Rare, Scholarly, Unique: Books and Manuscripts furnishes material outstanding in just a few, substantially deep, subjects. These carefully curated categories include
Architecture
Artist Exhibition Catalogues
Ephemera
Fine Press
Manuscript Americana
Biography & Memoir
Gastronomy
Design
Land & Place

822 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534
518.478.3660

“Every scrap of the past is worth preserving, and not least for this reason: that from one generation to the next we can never be certain whether the value of a given object—a coin, a book, a bundle of old letters—is great or small. Nor is this inconsistency in respect to value a function of anything as simple as scarcity; it is related also to how remarkably often scholars are capable of changing their minds. History is a speculation base on a vast kitchen-midden of indiscriminate facts, from which a variety of contradictory hypotheses can be plucked. We destroy at our peril what strikes us today as trash, for tomorrow we may be damned for having failed to detect its obvious importance.”
—Brendan Gill in his Foreword to Letters to Phil: Memories of New York Boyhood, 1848-1856 by Gene Schermerhorn