Marius is the distinguished antiquarian bookseller who features in the work of Javier Marias and worked for Bernard Stone and Peter Ellis; also a wide-ranging writer, most recently on Naples. This memoir has been published, in Canada, where MK was born. It is a hymn to the book trade and literary culture, an amazing trove of arcana, deep culture and gossip.
A Factotum in the Book Trade
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Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers
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After publishing 24 volumes on his father's work over 40 years, the great Christopher Tolkien died in Jan 2022, aged 95.