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