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The Pope's bookbinder : a memoir / David Mason.

Van Pelt Library Z483.M327 A3 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mason, David, 1938 June 30-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mason, David, 1938 June 30-.
Mason, David.
Mason, David, 1938 June 30---Books and reading.
Antiquarian booksellers--Ontario--Toronto--Biography.
Antiquarian booksellers.
Beats (Persons).
Ontario--Toronto.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:
421 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Windsor, Ont. : Biblioasis, 2013.
Contents:
Family Album 11
My Earliest Heroines and Heroes 13
Respectability Abandoned 33
The Pope's Bookbinder 49
Marty Ahvenus-Out of the Wilderness 57
My Second Mentor: Jerry Sherlock and Joseph Patrick Books 73
My First Real Shop 93
Los Angeles 101
Reflections on Scouting 109
Britnell's 133
The Pleasures of Blackmail 147
Learning My Trade 1: How to Scout 167
On the Buying of Books 183
Canadian Editions 211
Learning My Trade 2: Auctions 231
Learning My Trade 3: The Art of Appraising 263
Private Collectors 291
Employees 319
Crooks and Cranks 335
William Hoffer and the ABAC Wars 371
Selling Civilization 397
What Does it all Mean? 417.
Notes:
"A John Metcalf book."
ISBN:
1927428173
9781927428177
OCLC:
847237681
Publisher Number:
99954715131

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