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The Pope's Bookbinder

Author : David Mason
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1927428165
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book The Pope's Bookbinder written by David Mason and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 fifteen he’s expelled from school. For the next decade and a half, he will work odd jobs, buck all authority, buy books more often than food, and float around Europe. He’ll help gild a volume in white morocco for Pope John XXIII. And then, at the age of 30, after returning home to Canada and apprenticing with Joseph Patrick Books, David Mason will find his calling. 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 (turns out Canadian piracies so incensed Mark Twain that he moved to Montreal for six months to gain copyright protection). 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.

The Pope's Bookbinder

Author : David Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771960052
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Pope's Bookbinder written by David Mason and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one get from William Burrough's floor to binding books for Pope John XXIII? A must-read book dealer's memoir.

The Business of Bookbinding

Author : Alexander John Philip
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Business of Bookbinding written by Alexander John Philip and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bookbinder

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bookbinder written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

International Bookbinder

Author : James L. Feeney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book International Bookbinder written by James L. Feeney and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The International Bookbinder

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The International Bookbinder written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Paper Box Maker and American Bookbinder

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Paper Box Maker and American Bookbinder written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bookbinding Considered as a Fine Art, Mechanical Art and Manufacture

Author : Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bookbinding Considered as a Fine Art, Mechanical Art and Manufacture written by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Inky Parade

Author : Pradeep Sebastian
Publisher : Hachette India
ISBN 13 : 9357314199
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book An Inky Parade written by Pradeep Sebastian and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pradeep Sebastian has been an avid bibliophile and book collector for over a decade. In this collection of essays, he paints in full splendour the picture of a life devoted to the romance of books, blending personal experience, revelatory conversations and bewitching legends from the world of books. Meet the biryani chef guarding a prized Ottoman manuscript, track the mysterious 'Book Prince' of Kolkata, and visit the cottage in Kodaikanal that lures book collectors with its siren song. Discover how an emperor's defeat brought illuminated manuscripts into sixteenth-century India, how a rare 1865 edition of Alice in Wonderland surfaced in an Indian bazaar, and much more. An Inky Parade is a window into the charming world of antiquarian book trade in India and around the world, as well as an ode to the book as an object of art, sure to delight every reader.

Hand-book of Universal Biography

Author : Parke Godwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Hand-book of Universal Biography written by Parke Godwin and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A.L.A. Catalog, 1926

Author : Isabella Mitchell Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book A.L.A. Catalog, 1926 written by Isabella Mitchell Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding

Author : Sarah Treverbian Prideaux
Publisher : London : Lawrence & Bullen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding written by Sarah Treverbian Prideaux and published by London : Lawrence & Bullen. This book was released on 1893 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Praeterita

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Praeterita written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Adventures of Isabel Bookbinder: A Collection

Author : Holly McQueen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451689535
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Isabel Bookbinder: A Collection written by Holly McQueen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Share in all of the adventures (and misadventures!) of the lovable Isabel Bookbinder’s worklife—and love life—in this special new eBook collection. The Glamorous (Double) Life of Isabel Bookbinder Although Isabel Bookbinder, a twenty-seven-year-old assistant at the Saturday Mercury newspaper in London, may spend most of her time measuring newspaper column inches, she’s well on her way to becoming a bestselling author. She gets up at dawn to work on her novel (well, sort of) and she even has a fabulous mentor—a bestselling but increasingly eccentric author. But when she inadvertently exposes a political sex scandal and her name becomes known for all the wrong reasons, her glamorous double life starts to spin out of control. Fabulously Fashionable Isabel Bookbinder is back, and this time, she just knows that her true calling is to be a designer. So when she bags a job with Nancy ‘Fashion Aristocracy’ Tavistock, the editor at a top fashion magazine, Isabel is sure her career is finally on track. Within days she’s putting the final touches on her debut collection. And on top of that she might even have fallen in love. Yet nothing ever runs smoothly for Isabel, and fabulously fashionably as her life is, it soon seems to be spiraling a little out of her control. Confetti Confidential Having realized that fashion design may not actually be the best profession for her, Isabel Bookbinder has made another career move—this time, into the world of wedding planning. She’s landed a big celebrity client, and she’s moved in with her perfect lawyer boyfriend, Will. So it seems like the universe is finally aligning in her favor—that is, until Will becomes increasingly reluctant to discuss their future... Will Isabel be able to pull off the wedding that could make or break her career? Can she ever measure up in her father’s eyes? And will she ever have a wedding day all of her own?

The Glamorous (Double) Life of Isabel Bookbinder

Author : Holly McQueen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416580751
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Glamorous (Double) Life of Isabel Bookbinder written by Holly McQueen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabel Bookbinder is a twenty-seven-year-old assistant at the Saturday Mercury newspaper in London. She has a disinterested boyfriend, a mother who loves clothes that match, and a father who always expects her to do better. Although Isabel may spend most of her time measuring newspaper column inches, she's well on her way to becoming a bestselling author. She's already perfected Her Look (cashmere track suit, lots of mascara), is working on her toned size eight figure, and gets up at dawn to work on her novel (well, sort of). She even has a fabulous mentor -- a bestselling but increasingly eccentric author who takes her to glamorous book parties and introduces her to the dreamy literary agent Joe Madison. But when she inadvertently exposes a political sex scandal and her name becomes known for all the wrong reasons, her glamorous double life starts to spin out of control. With her distinctive voice, penchant for getting in sticky situations, and blind confidence in her dream of becoming a famous novelist, Isabel Bookbinder is a heroine that you can't help but root for.

The British & Colonial Bookbinder

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The British & Colonial Bookbinder written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to Die

Author : Ray Robertson
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771960957
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book How to Die written by Ray Robertson and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and an argument for how it can make us happy. “He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,” writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book about Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society avoids the subject and often values the mere continuation of existence over its quality, Robertson argues that the active and intentional consideration of death is neither morbid nor frivolous, but instead essential to our ability to fully value life. How to Die is both an absorbing excursion through some of Western literature’s most compelling works on the subject of death as well as an anecdote-driven argument for cultivating a better understanding of death in the belief that, if we do, we’ll know more about what it means to live a meaningful life.