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Roy Vernon Sowers: A Life in Rare Books Paperback - 1997
by Roger Burford Mason
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- Title Roy Vernon Sowers: A Life in Rare Books
- Author Roger Burford Mason
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 93
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Subway Books, Toronto
- Date April 7, 1997
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780968166048 / 0968166040
- Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.72 x 0.32 in (21.59 x 14.53 x 0.81 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97151060
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Toronto: Subway Books, 1997. First Edition. Soft cover. As New. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. Trade edition of 950 copies. 93pp. Illus. "... a legendary figure in the antiquarian book world ... a Canadian whose first shop, in the mid 1920s, was a mecca for Toronto collectors and writers." Fine, like new.
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ROY VERNON SOWERS: A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS.
by Mason, Roger Burford. (Roy Vernon Sowers.)
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Toronto: Subway Books, 1997. 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…
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Toronto: Subway Books [0-9681660-4-0] 1997, 1st printing, trade edition. (Mass market paperback) 93pp. Near fine. 8vo. Printed grey card wraps. Bright and clean. Printed on Zephyr Antique Laid and bound at the Porcupine's Quill..
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toronto, Ontario, Canada: Subway Books, 1997. Miniscule rubbing, bumping or shelfwear to covers. Spine straight and uncreased. Interior tight and unmarked. Limited printing of 950 copies. Publisher's info sheet included. 93 pp.. First Trade. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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