Carlos Goez (December 13, 1939 – December 25, 1990) founded the original Pomander Book Shop, (along with his life partner Timothy Mawson), a rather unprepossessing, Dickensian storefront The "Pomander," as it was known, was located at 252 West 95th Street, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, next to the Thalia, one of New York's first repertory movie theatres