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

by Mason, David, 1938 June 30-

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Biblioasis, 2013.

381.45002 M398p

Mason, David, 1938-

Mason, David, 1938- -- Books and reading.

Antiquarian booksellers -- Canada -- Biography.

Book collectors -- Canada -- Biography.

Beat generation.

9781927428177 (hc.)

1927428173 (hc.)

421 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

"A John Metcalfe book."

Issued also in an electronic format.

"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. Over the course of what is now a legendary international career, Mason shows unerring instincts for the logic of the trade. He makes good money from Canadian editions, both legitimate and pirated. He outfoxes the cousins of L.M. Montgomery at auction and blackmails the head of the Royal Ontario Museum. He excoriates the bureaucratic pettiness that obstructs public acquisitions, he trumpets the ingenuity of collectors and scouts, and in archives around the world he appraises history in its unsifted and most moving forms. Above all, however, David Mason boldly campaigns for what he feels is the moral duty of the antiquarian trade: to preserve the history and traditions of all nations, and to assert without compromise that such histories have value. Sly, sparkling, and endearingly gruff, The Pope's Bookbinder is an engrossing memoir by a giant in the book trade--whose infectious enthusiasm, human insight, commercial shrewdness, and deadpan humour will delight bibliophiles for decades to come"--Provided by publisher.

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