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William Gowans

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also lived. He ran a bookstore for over 40 years, and for his last 10 years was the proprietor of a famously cluttered shop overflowing with volumes on
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bookseller in New York City. In 1821, he emigrated to the USA with his family. Around 1837, he stayed as a boarder in the house where
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The Bookman

antiquarian
Edgar Allan Poe
Nassau Street
Manhattan
Obituary: William Gowans
The New York Times
The Late William Gowans
Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers
The Old Booksellers of New York
The Bookman (New York)
Categories
Antiquarian booksellers
Scottish emigrants to the United States
1803 births
1870 deaths
American antiquarians
American booksellers
19th-century American businesspeople

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