When Canada’s Governor General Adrienne Clarkson first looked in the Governor General’s library, she discovered that 150 of the 492 books that have won a Governor-General’s Award since the inaugural prize in 1937 were missing from the collection. Scouring secondhand bookstores, Clarkson and her husband John Ralston Saul have reduced the number of missing books to only 11. “The problem is that the vanished volumes are now out of print and thus nearly impossible to find…”