David Mason's "The Pope's Bookbinder" (2013)

Windsor, Ontario, Canada: Biblioasis (book, memoir), 2013.
8.75" x 6.25" x 1.5", 424 pages, hardcover in dust jacket, ISBN 978-1-927428-17-7.

The Pope's Bookbinder: A Memoir by David Mason, a memoir published in hardcover by Biblioasis (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) in 2013. Edited by John Metcalf. Copy-edited by Dan Wells. Typeset by Chris Andrechek. Cover designed by Kate Hargreaves. 

Minor Burroughs content, but interesting for the insights it brings into the Beat Hotel at 9 rue Gît-le-Cœur, Paris, and the quality of Burroughs' work on The Naked Lunch at the time. Pages 45–46 are of particular interest.

This copy is signed by the author and was acquired from Leonard Shoup (Burlington, Ontario, Canada).

Contents: 

• Family Album
• My Earliest Heroines and Heroes
• Respectability Abandoned
• The Pope's Bookbinder
• Marty Ahvenus—Out of the Wilderness
• My Second Mentor: Jerry Sherlock and Joseph Patrick Books
• My First Real Shop
• Los Angeles
• Reflections on Scouting
• Britnell's 
• The Pleasures of Blackmail
• Learning My Trade 1: How to Scout
• On the Buying of Books
• Canadian Editions
• Learning My Trade 2: Auctions
• Learning My Trade 3: The Art of Appraising
• Private Collectors
• Employees
• Crooks and Cranks
• William Hoffer and the ABAC Wars
• Selling Civilization
• What Does It All Mean?
• Acknowledgments