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0BflUARIS
Paynd Arthur tvies, noted bookseller, died on JUly17, 1985.
Ivies, who emigrated with his father frcn Western Russia to the United
States in 1920, was born in the village of Srvrgon, since obliterated by
the Second World War, aid until his adult years used his father's family
name, Shoban. Always fascinated by writing and consumed by a love of
books, Ivies became a journalist covering Spain In the late 1930's aixl
then USSR frtzn 1941-1945. As a journalist for Canadian media, he was
only a few days behizd the front line aid was one of the first western
journalists into Hitler's banker after the fall of Berlin. He was also one of
the first to enter aid report frurt llinka and Maidanek concentration
casts. After the war he ran a news service fron Thronto for a number of
year before axiving to )bitreal and beginning a book service under the
name R. A. aid Lillian Davies. His life was books, aid he shared it with his
wife Lillian until her death In 1968. Tagether they bailt an International
service that had an unsurpassed reputation for obtaining difficult-to--find
Slavic end Fast Eircpean laterial, and there is hanily a major library in
the United States that at one tine or another did not find it useful (while
often quite expensiv&) to use the services of RamrM aid Lillian Davies.
The name of the crepany evolved to Davies Book Company, then
Scientific Books International, World Book Ourporation, Livres des Clnq
Continents aid finelly Incie Bolduc Inc., whicti was the mane of Davies
sed wife.
Davies had a knack of finding things quickly, or a least quicker than
others, aid his reach was at tines astonishing. Always on the go,
difficult to pin down aid sometimes leaving a messy wake In this tale,
this man was a encnon to everyone who knew his. He may have loved
the wheeling aid dealing as reich as the books themselves, but he believed
In his heart that it was his way of contributing to International
understanding aid to the advancement of mankind. Awash in a world where
ocepaters were unknown, his warehouses were in constant tunimil. hind
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