![]() ![]() That intimate one on one friendship where they knew what you were looking for and were able to find you gorgeous books for a pittance. With this book you walk away with the feeling you wish more bookshops were still like this. Through the years she becomes a part of the staffs' lives and they hers, though they never meet. The shop is able to supply the books to her in wonderful clean and tight copies for next to nothing, and there starts the connection. Bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road saying they specialize in antiquarian and out-of-print books and immediately writes them with a list of the rare non-fiction she is looking for which she is unable to find stateside. One day Miss Hanff saw an ad in the Saturday Evening Review for the Marks & Co. Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road is a compendium of the twenty year correspondence between the New York writer Helene Hanff and the British bookseller Frank Doel. ![]()
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