Dec 7, 2021
William (Bill) Matthews
has been dealing in old & rare books, manuscripts, maps and related
material since 1976. He began working for a bookshop in Saskatoon,
then opened his own in Vancouver in 1976, and subsequently moved to
Toronto in 1980. He was in Ontario until 1996 when he moved to San
Francisco / Berkeley and...
Dec 2, 2021
Don Stewart is the
proprietor of MacLeod’s Books at 455 West Pender Street in
downtown Vancouver, a shop famed for its magnificent piles of
books, wide selection and narrow aisles. Stewart bought MacLeod's Books in 1973
from Van Andruss who'd bought it from Don MacLeod a few
years after it opened
in 1964. He
moved the...
Sep 1, 2021
Aimee Peake has been
active in the antiquarian book business in Winnipeg for more than
20 years. She got her start as an apprentice to Michael Park,
proprietor Greenfield Books. In 2000 she took over as manager of
the newly-opened Bison Books, assuming sole proprietorship in 2010.
In 2018 she purchased Greenfield and...
Mar 10, 2021
Since 2012, Jason Rovito has been working with institutional and private collectors to grow the documentary value of their collections "because the Cloud forgets." Subject strengths include: the avant-garde, design, the human sciences, and visual culture across the full spectrum of Special Collections formats:...
David Mason on his memoir The Pope's Bookbinder, Part ll
Dec 5, 2020
Sly, sparkling, and endearingly gruff, David Mason is an engrossing conversationalist; a giant in the book trade whose infectious enthusiasm, human insight, commercial shrewdness, and deadpan humour are all on display here in part ll of our discussion about his memoir The Pope's Bookbinder.
Listen to Part l