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Fine trade paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Paper copy as issued; 93 pages; Description: 93 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Limited edition (1/950) . Subjects: Sowers, Roy Vernon, (1897-) . Antiquarian booksellers--United States--Biography. Art dealers - Private presses--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History--20th century
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Roger Burford Mason moved with his wife and son from England to Toronto in 1988. Since then he has published two collections of short stories, a collection of travel essays, two biographies, and a book about Canada. He has written for many Canadian, U.S., and British magazines and newspapers, and has broadcast on a number of Canadian radio stations. He is the editorial director of a group of business publications, and a contributing editor of Canadian Notes & Queries.
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- PublisherSubway Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0968166040
- ISBN 13 9780968166048
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages93
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Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 93 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). One of the trade edition of 950 copies. B&w illustrations. "A Canadian whose first shop, in the mid-1920s, was a mecca for Toronto collectors and writers, Sowers later settled in Southern California. There he dealt rarities to the emerging carriage trade and subsequently worked at the famous Huntington Library. Later still, he was a conspicuous book-and print-dealer at a succession of locations in San Francisco, where he also patronized and promoted the fine-press movement. Sowers, who died in 1970, spent his last years gathering books in Britain and Europe for resale through catalogues from his remote fruit farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains. His catalogues (he issued seventy-nine in all) were notable for more than the often extraordinary books they described so knowledgeably, from modern first editions (in the first years of his career) to titles in early medicine and the history of science (areas which Sowers helped to make fashionable). His catalogues were themselves collected for the grumpy erudition of their introductory essays, pieces which grew more curmudgeonly as Sowers aged. In a trade that reveres both learning and eccentricity, Roy Vernon Sowers was held in special regard." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean. Seller Inventory # 22333
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Book Description First Edition. Fine trade paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Paper copy as issued; 93 pages; Description: 93 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Limited edition (1/950) . Subjects: Sowers, Roy Vernon, (1897-) . Antiquarian booksellers--United States--Biography. Art dealers - Private presses--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History--20th century 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 7879
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