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(4.24) | 1 / 1035 | This book is the very simple story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London'. DAILY TELEGRAPH Told in a series of letters in 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD and then in diary form in the second part THE DUCHESS OF BLOOMSBURY STREET, this true story has touched the hearts of thousands.… (more) |
▾LibraryThing Recommendations  205 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (khuggard, DetailMuse, helgagrace, ehough75, kraaivrouw)khuggard: Another tale about book lovers who come together through letters, with the same, post-war England setting. kraaivrouw: Another book about people who connect via their love of books and reading. 110 The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff (Booksloth, Cecrow)Cecrow: A sort-of sequel to 84 Charing Cross Road, detailing Helen's visit to London, England. 40 The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley (BasilBlue)40 The private papers of a bankrupt bookseller by William Young Darling (BasilBlue)BasilBlue: Fascinating peek at the nature of book sellers and book buyers in the early 20th century. 51 Q's Legacy by Helene Hanff (lilithcat)lilithcat: "Q" is Arthur Quiller-Couch, whose book On the Art of Writing led Ms. Hanff to what would become many of her favorite books and writers. 74 The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (withwill, teelgee)30 The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee (Booksloth)10 Bibliophilia by N. John Hall (sneuper)sneuper: Like Bibliophilia, 84 Charing Cross Road is a correspondence between a collecter and an antiquarian bookseller. 21 An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Books by Wendy Werris (sfelber)sfelber: Another book about books-this time the book selling business. A fascinating read. This memoir by Wendy Werris details her life from working in a San Francisco book store as a kid to becoming an independent book rep. A true behind-the-scene view for bibliophiles.… (more) 00 The Thorn and the Blossom by Theodora Goss (MyriadBooks)22 Book Traveller by Bruce Bliven (trav)11 At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman (Booksloth)01 Twice Born by Margaret Mazzantini (remeig)01 Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor (bnbookgirl, bnbookgirl)
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Gentlemen: Your ad in the Saturday Review of Literature says that you specialize in out-of-print books.  | |
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My friends are peculiar about books. They read all the best sellers, they get through them as fast as possible, I think they skip a lot. And they NEVER read anything a second time so they don't remember a word of it a year later. But they are profoundly shocked to see me drop a book in the wastebasket or give it away. The way they look at it, you buy a book, you read it, you put it on the shelf, you never open it again for the rest of your life but YOU DON'T THROW IT OUT! NOT IF IT HAS A HARD COVER ON IT! Why not? I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book. [54]  I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me. [7]  It [the Book Lover's Anthology] looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before. [56]  Have you got De Tocqueville's Journey to America? Somebody borrowed mine and never gave it back. Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books? [61]  A newspaper man I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for. I told him I'd go looking for the England of English literature, and he said: "Then it's there." [13]
 It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on .... [44]  | |
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This is the main work - Hanff's 84 Charing Cross Road (unabridged). Please do not combine with omnibus/combined editions, anthologies or abridged editions.
The UK edition titled 84 Charing Cross Road, ISBN 0860074382, 1844085244 and 1860498507, is actually an omnibus edition of this title and The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street. Works identified as this omnibus should NOT be combined with this work, 84 Charing Cross Road.  | |
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▾Book descriptions This book is the very simple story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London'. DAILY TELEGRAPH Told in a series of letters in 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD and then in diary form in the second part THE DUCHESS OF BLOOMSBURY STREET, this true story has touched the hearts of thousands. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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VIRAGO EDITION: Your ad in the Saturday Review of Literature says that you specialize in out-of-print books. The phrase 'antiquarian book-sellers' scares me somewhat, as I equate 'antique' with expensive. I am a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books and all the things I want are impossible to get over here except in very expensive rare editions, or in Barnes and Noble's grimy, marked-up schoolboy copies.
So begins the delightfully reticent love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London. For twenty years this outspoken New York writer and Frank Doel, a rather more restrained London bookseller, carry on an increasingly touching correspondence to the point where, in early December, 1949, Helene is suddenly worried that the six-pound ham she's sent off to augment British rations will arrive in a kosher office. Soon they are sharing more personal news about Frank's family and Hanff's career. No doubt their letters would have continued, but in 1969 the firm's secretary informed Helene that Frank Doel had died. In the collection's penultimate entry, Helene Hanff urges a tourist friend, 'If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me. I owe it so much.'  | |
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