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 Known familiarly as Margie Cohn. (Cohn's 1980 address notes that among the "younger writers" who had become friends with her she numbered Tom Stoppard, whose presentation inscription on her copy of his //Dirty Linen// read "For Margie Cohn a clean girl - a dirty book." Cohn comments, "He is one of the most thoughtful persons I know.")  Known familiarly as Margie Cohn. (Cohn's 1980 address notes that among the "younger writers" who had become friends with her she numbered Tom Stoppard, whose presentation inscription on her copy of his //Dirty Linen// read "For Margie Cohn a clean girl - a dirty book." Cohn comments, "He is one of the most thoughtful persons I know.") 
  
-Bookseller [[Larry McMurtry]] wrote in a New York //Times// column "Lost Booksellers of New York" on [[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/opinion/sunday/lost-booksellers-of-new-york.html10 May 2014]]: +Bookseller [[Larry McMurtry]] wrote in a New York //Times// column "Lost Booksellers of New York" on [[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/opinion/sunday/lost-booksellers-of-new-york.html|10 May 2014]]: 
  
 "The other powerful woman on the New York book scene at that time [ca. 1965] was the redoubtable Marguerite Cohn, of the House of Books Ltd., the first New York bookseller to focus on the condition of the books she sold and of the collections she built. Margie, as her friends called her, was explosive. I believe she once flung a copy of //Three Stories and Ten Poems// at someone: her husband, who was Hemingway’s first bibliographer; one of her husband’s mistresses; or Edmund Wilson. The record is not clear, but the book is currently worth maybe $75,000. Margie, on a buying trip to London, looked the wrong way, stepped off a curb and was killed by a truck. She may have had more disciples in the trade than any other dealer, the most impressive perhaps being [[Peter B. Howard]] of [[Serendipity Books]] in Berkeley, Calif. Both shop and shopkeeper are now gone." "The other powerful woman on the New York book scene at that time [ca. 1965] was the redoubtable Marguerite Cohn, of the House of Books Ltd., the first New York bookseller to focus on the condition of the books she sold and of the collections she built. Margie, as her friends called her, was explosive. I believe she once flung a copy of //Three Stories and Ten Poems// at someone: her husband, who was Hemingway’s first bibliographer; one of her husband’s mistresses; or Edmund Wilson. The record is not clear, but the book is currently worth maybe $75,000. Margie, on a buying trip to London, looked the wrong way, stepped off a curb and was killed by a truck. She may have had more disciples in the trade than any other dealer, the most impressive perhaps being [[Peter B. Howard]] of [[Serendipity Books]] in Berkeley, Calif. Both shop and shopkeeper are now gone."
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