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84, Charing Cross Road

Hanff, Helene. Book - 1990 094.068 Ha None on shelf 4 requests on 1 copy Community Rating: 4.8 out of 5

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094.068 Ha 4-week checkout Due 04-09-2024

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Grossman, 1975.
Correspondence between Helene Hanff and agents of Marks & Co., chiefly Frank Doel.
What started as a request for an out-of-print book evolved into a 20-year friendship between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York, and Frank Doel, a used-book dealer in London.

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Charming! submitted by bookher on June 16, 2017, 2:17pm What a charming little book of letters!

Warm, uplifting, quick read submitted by Elizabethreads on July 21, 2020, 12:36pm This small book of letters will restore your faith in humanity.

Like every book lover, Helene Hanff is on a quest for titles for her personal library, and when the shops nearby run out of stock, she pens a letter to Marks & Co., a bookshop that she hopes will help. And so begins a decades-long witty, magical correspondence between Helene and the reserved antiquarian bookseller, Frank Dole. As the world around them is shaped by WWII, the friendship between Helene, Frank, and the cast of characters at Marks & Co. is something lovely to behold.

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PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1990.
Year Published: 1990
Description: 97 pages ; 20 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0140143505
9780140143508

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Doel, Frank.
Marks & Co.

SUBJECTS
Hanff, Helene -- Correspondence.
Doel, Frank -- Correspondence.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Booksellers and bookselling -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.