With my departure delayed until tomorrow, I headed into London and visited the bookshops in Charing Cross Road. Didn't buy anything - though I did find a superb 3 volume first edition of Churchill's "World Crisis', his history of the First World War. It was only 300 pounds...oh well! Saw the place where the old bookshop made famous in Helene Hanff's '84 Charing Cross Road' once stood, together with the commemorative plaque noting the book and the store. Here are some pictures from running around today. The bookshop by the way is Edwards, from around 1855, but not the spot of Marks & Co. That's a little further along - now an empty building again. Hmmmm. Ideas...
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