![]() She enclosed a list of her ‘most pressing problems’, one of which was a Latin Bible. Miss Hanff described herself as ‘a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books’ which she was unable to satisfy as ‘all the things I want are impossible to get over here except in very expensive rare editions, or grimy, marked-up school copies’. It was not the kind of letter they were accustomed to receiving, and it was one that would make history. In the drab and traumatized post-war London of 1949, Marks & Co., second-hand and antiquarian booksellers at 84, Charing Cross Road, received an enquiry from a Miss Helene Hanff of New York City. I now reccomend it to everyone, so get in quick and order your copy before I buy them all to give away as presents first!Īs usual - over to Slightly Foxed to tell you what it is all about: As does everybody else I was with, because I didn't stop laughing from start to finish. ![]() Thanks to a very hot day in Italy, during which I didn't put it down, I now know. ![]()
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