84 CHARING CROSS ROAD

84, Charing Cross Road is a charming record of bibliophilia, cultural difference, and imaginative sympathy. For 20 years, an outspok en New York writer and a rather more restrained London bookseller carried on an increasingly touching correspondence. In her first l etter to Marks y Co., Helene Hanff encloses a wish list, but warns, The phrase 'antiquarian booksellers' scares me somewhat, as I eq uate 'antique' with expensive. Twenty days later, on October 25, 1949, a correspondent identified only as FPD let Hanff know that wo rks by H...[Read more]