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Sir Thomas Phillipps, history's most obsessive book collector.
Henry Wagner's name is most associated today with the important bibliography of Western Americana he coauthored with Charles Camp. However, Wagner was also an expert on western American history, a writer on the same, and an important book collector. He related his long career in the 1962 book Bullion to Books, Fifty Years of Business and Pleasure. It includes a bibliography of his works. Item 331. $250.
Dora Hood was another individual with a long career in the book world, though hers was as a seller rather than collector. She opened Dora Hood's Book Room in 1928 in Toronto, which she ran until the business was sold in 1954. Her specialty, quite logically, was Canadiana, and she was a pioneer in that field. In 1958, she published a now uncommon biography covering her career and the many important writers and collectors she knew, entitled The Side Door, Twenty-Six Years in My Book Room. This copy is signed by Ms. Hood. Item 18. $75.
