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Rowan Gibbs Rowan Gibbs i(A65732 works by) (a.k.a. Rowan William Gibbs)
Born: Established: 1947 Wellington, Wellington (Region), North Island,
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Rowan Gibbs studied and taught in the field of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington, having graduated in 1969 with an MA (Hons) in Greek. In 1972 he became a secondhand bookseller, and from 1987 onwards owner of Smith's Bookshop in Wellington. He has published some twenty annotated book sale catalogues, a bibliographical catalogue of The Swiss Family Robinson, articles on New Zealand literature in Kite and Kotare, compiler of the exhibition catalogue The Art of the Book (Wellington, N.Z.: Book Arts Society, 1990) and of bibliographies of Ngaio Marsh (Scunthorpe, England, 1990), Dorothy Quentin (Wellington, 1998), Barry Crump (Wellington, 2001), Dorothy Eden (2007), Harry Emmet (2014).

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