The Pope's Bookbinder

A Literary Memoir

David Mason (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2016
Biblioasis (Verlag)
978-1-77196-005-2 (ISBN)

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"Early on in this rambling, easygoing account of his career, Mason mentions three outstanding classics of [the] subgenre: Charles Everitt's The Adventures of a Treasure Hunter, David Randall's Dukedom Large Enough, and David Magee's Infinite Riches. The Pope's Bookbinder belongs on the same shelf."--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

Includes episodes on: hitchhiking cross-country and provoking arrest to get out of the cold, being itinerant in Europe, sleeping off an amphetamine high on the floor in William Burrough's Spanish hotel room, working at a bookbindery in Spain doing a special commission (in white morroco) for the Pope, and blackmailing the head of the Royal Ontario Museum
Chapters about his youth are as much about the beat movement & drug culture as they are about books
Snapshot of book culture in the 50s and 60s, including time spent in Spain at the Beat Hotel and in Paris at Shakespeare & Co.
Compare to Larry McMurtry's Books: A Memoir (2009), Nicolas Basbane's Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the 21st Century (2003), David Meyer's Memoirs of a Book Snake (2001), Lawrence Goldstone's Used and Rare(1998), or John Baxter's A Pound of Paper (2005)
Insider takes on the secrets of bookselling, including the risks of high-stakes auctions, dos and don'ts, costly mistakes, happy accidents, and wonderful finds
Author is now a very well-respected and well-connected dealer who's been in the book business since 1967
Antiquarian memoirs have a built-in audience with a higher price-point
32 pp B&W photographs

David Mason was born in Toronto and has been an antiquarian bookseller in that city since 1967, after serving an apprenticeship with Joseph Patrick Books. He has, during that period, had five different locations and continues to insist on having an open shop in downtown Toronto in spite of the huge costs, general indifference, and the disappearance of most of his colleagues. His present shop is called David Mason Books.

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.7.2016
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Emeryville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	623 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-77196-005-1 / 1771960051
ISBN-13	978-1-77196-005-2 / 9781771960052
Zustand	Neuware