Word: bookshops
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...bookshop is an insidious thing. Its portals are as inviting as the jaws of a trap. The unwary passerby is almost irresistibly lured into its mellow interior, perhaps to while away a pleasant hour in contemplation of its variegated shelves, perhaps only to escape a sudden shower. There is so agreeable an absence of obligation. No one feels the least demand upon his purse when he enters a bookshop, any more than when he strays into a friend's library. He means only to "look around," feels a. certain pride in assuring the unobtrusive salesman that he is hardly...
According to Mr. Walter T. Spence, one of the best known of London dealers in rare books and whose "Forty Years in My Bookshop" was recently published by Houghton Mifflin Company, the forgery of autobiography is not so common a pursuit for the indigent and unscrupulous intelligensia as it was forty years ago. In those days such incidents as the following were not uncommon. "A workingman came into my shop with a book under his arm:--Hone's Everyday Book, 1839, with a good many MS. marginal notes signed or initialled "Charles Lamb." He said...
...misfortune. He didn't love her, really ? all she learned was that this was a crazy world. She wouldn't marry an acceptable parti. She moved to Greenwich Village and found it as meaningless and conventional as St. Pierre. Then she ran into Roger Leland, who kept a bookshop, and had known her when he was an adolescent and she was a child...
Well, that was the end, of course. Roger had always been in love with her, really, as she remarked. So they set up housekeeping in Roger's bookshop, without benefit of clergy. They had their ups and downs at first, but they felt more and more married as they went on. And, oddly enough for a modern couple, they liked...
William McFee, novelist: "The Cunard-Anchor steamship Tuscania, which has just sailed for the Mediterranean, is the only trans-Atlantic liner with a bookshop aboard. Captain David W. Bone, who wrote The Brass-bounder, and other books, commands this ship, and I, who wrote Command, Casuals of the Sea, and so on, am proprietor of her unique 'traveling Parnassus...