Serving the Book
Toronto: The Coach House Press, 2000. Paperback. Number 221 of 300 copies. Signed and inscribed by the author to Nina Matheson and her husband. Nina is a bibliophile, ex-rare book dealer, and the director emerita of the Johns Hopkins Welch Medical Library.With laid in card reading "with compliments of Marie Korey and David Mason." Originally presented as a talk at Alumni Hall, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 30 November 1999, under the auspices of the Toronto Centre for the Book and the Friends of Victoria University Library. Bound in cream paper wrappers with red title to front panel. Clean and bright. Laid in is another speech given by David Mason in 2002 at the L.M. Montgomery Institute University of Prince Edward Island titled "Anne's Adventures on Her Way Home" printed on 8.5 x 11 paper, stapled, and folded with a few handwritten edits and a note on the front that it was printed pre-publication. A handwritten letter from David to Nina and her husband is with the printed speech. 27 pages. PRI/102623. Fine. More