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The Pope's Bookbinder: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Mason, David

Publisher: Biblioasis
Year: 2013
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 244 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781927428160

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✦ Synopsis

''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

''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

''An atmospheric, informative memoir by a Canadian seller of used and rare books ... Gossipy, rambling and enchanting, alive with Mason’s love for books of every variety.''—Kirkus Reviews

From his drug-hazy, book-happy years near the Beat Hotel in Paris and throughout his career as antiquarian book dealer, David Mason brings us a storied life. He discovers his love of literature in a bathtub at age eleven, thumbing through stacks of lurid Signet paperbacks. At...

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