The title of a collection of Gordon N. Ray's essays. Books as a Way of Life (1988), summarizes his career as a scholar, a book collector, and what he called a "public servant" of the humanities; the l...
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Gordon Norton Ray was a passionate and discerning book collector; his collecting habits serve as a reflection and representation of his scholarly interests. He collected for institutions, such as the ...
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Gordon N(orton) Ray