- Publisher: Alpha
- Year: 2003
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 88pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 215x137mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.1kg
- ISBN: 9781898595410
- Product code: 538027
First and Last Editions
England's Second-Hand Bookshops
Gordon Allan New Paperback Illustrated
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Described by its author as ‘a mixture of fact, anecdote and quotation’, this is a record of a dedicated bibliophile’s eighteen-month tour of provincial second-hand bookshops, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the Isles of Scilly.
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This book, which is a mixture of fact, anecdote and quotation, describes the author's meandering exploration of some of the best of England's provincial second-hand bookshops, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the Isles of Scilly. Judged by the contents of the author's bookshelves, he has a strong but highly selective interest in sport, with rugby union, cricket and bowls foremost, and the odd place allowed to football and golf. There are biographies and autobiographies from Bernard Shaw to Alan Ross; a dozen volumes by W. H. Hudson, greatest of naturalists; travels with Henry James and Paul Theroux and Edwin Muir; books on cinema Westerns; essays by Ford Madox Ford and Edward Thomas; a novel or two; and a little poetry. The bulk of these books are dependent, to a greater or lesser extent, on fact, suggesting, correctly, that their owner is a journalist.
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