BOOK TREASURES
IN FROZEN NORTH. TORONTO, March 21. A treasure troye for book collectors may prove to be oh the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. In a letter to a Toronto dealer in old books, an engineer stationed on the frontiers of civilisation has asked for help in, checking the value of countless volumes, the accumulated libraries of hundreds of traders through a couple of centuries —books used to while away many thousands of long, bitter evenings. First editions of Pickwick, in original parts, now valued at somewhere near 15,000d015. (£3000) a copy; firsts of Boswell’s “Life of Johnson,” of Walter Scott’s novels, and countless others, may be found there, the engineer said. The value of these book treasures will be quite sufficient, it is thought, to start a “gold rush” of bibliophiles for the North.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1931, Page 9
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