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TO BE PUBLISHED ON JUNE 6TH 2013
The Pope’s Bookbinder. A Memoir.
By David Mason.
Biblioasis, 2013. 420 pages. Illustrated. $37.95(CAD).
A memoir of Mason’s forty-five years in the booktrade. After some years in Europe doing odd jobs, including a period doing bookbinding in Spain, and reading incessantly, Mason returned to Canada, apprenticed in the book trade with Joseph Patrick Books and has been selling used and rare books ever since. His memories include the books dealers, collectors, and libraries he has dealt with over that period.
“For anyone who loves books too well – who lusts after them, lives in them, mainlines them – David Mason’s memoir will be a fix from heaven. Heartful, cantankerous, droll, his tales of honour and obsession in the trade gratify the very book-love they portray. An irresistible read.” – Dennis Lee
“Entertaining, moving, informative, intelligently hopeful: I know of few other books like this one to warm the cockles of a booklover’s heart.” – Alberto Manguel
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Catalogue 87
Old New Age.
Just issued catalogue.
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FEATURED ITEMS
WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908. (In fact, 1910). First illustrated edition (illustrations by Eugène Dété after Paul Thiriat). 4to., navy morocco, marble boards, raised bands, gilt dec. on spine, (312)pp. Fine. Notice tipped in at half-title explaining that the book was intended to be printed in 1908 (hence the title date) but was postponed to 1910 due to the artist falling ill.
$1,000.00
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Our Latest Catalogue NOW AVAILABLE Online
Catalogue 87
Old New Age.
Just issued catalogue. We have some printed hard copies of this catalogue which can be obtained for $5.00 inc. by request.
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Previous Catalogues Available
Catalogue 86
Boy's Adventure Stories.
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School Days - A Selection of Books and School Related Artifacts.
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