Martial Bliss: The Story of The Military Bookman

In the seedy New York City of 1976, Wall Street refugee Harris Colt ’57 founded and ran a specialty antiquarian bookstore, The Military Bookman, with his wife, Margaretta. The store, in a brownstone in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood, carried old and rare military, naval, and aviation history books. Margaretta Barton Colt’s Martial Bliss is the light-hearted memoir of a fantasy turned reality, a unique enterprise that flourished in the late 20th century.