I'd love to get my hands on Sheila Markham's book which was published in a
limited edition and is sold out. You can read the transcripts of many of her
interviews (though not the ones that made it into the book) at
http://www.sheila-markham.com/sheila_markham.html (click on "interviews.")
Another book, that I don't think has been mentioned yet, is David Meyer's
"Memoirs of a Book Snake," a short, fast read.
Michael
Michael Levine-Clark
Collections Librarian
Penrose Library
University of Denver
2150 East Evans Avenue
Denver, CO 80208
Phone: 303-871-3413
Fax: 303-871-2290
Email: miclark@du.edu
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From: Exlibris [mailto:EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME] On Behalf Of Germaine
Warkentin
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 6:55 AM
To: EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME
Subject: Re: [EXLIBRIS] Best Memoirs of Book Collectors/Dealers?
Not a book, but an article (lecture?) with some good stories; see "What
use is Bibliography?: The Life and Opinions of an Antiquarian
Bookseller," by Stephen Weissman, recently recommended to me by a
friend (PBSA v. 89.2, June 1995). How about Percy Muir's "Minding my Own
Business: An Autobiography" (1956). And then there's Sheila's Markham's
"Book of Booksellers: conversations with the Antiquarian book trade
1991-2003," (2004), which I am waiting to read because it's still "on
order" with our library. Germaine
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Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus)
VC 205, Victoria College (University of Toronto),
73 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7, CANADA
g.warkentin@utoronto.ca (fax number on request)
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