84 Charing Cross Road / Helene Hanff.
Publication details: London : Virago, 2002.Description: 230 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781860498503 (pbk.)
- 1860498507 (pbk.) :
- Eighty four Charing Cross Road
- Hanff, Helene -- Travel -- England
- Doel, Frank -- Correspondence
- Hanff, Helene -- Journeys -- England
- Hanff, Helene, 1916-1997. -- Correspondence
- Hanff, Helene, 1916-1997. -- Journeys -- England
- Hanff, Helene -- Correspondence
- Hanff, Helene
- Hanff, Helene. -- Correspondence
- Hanff, Helene. -- Journeys -- England
- Doel, Frank. -- Correspondence
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Records and correspondence
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Antiquarian booksellers -- England -- Correspondence
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Biography
- Antiquarian booksellers
- Booksellers and bookselling
- Women authors, American -- Correspondence
- Woman authors, American -- Biography
- Booksellers and bookselling -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
- England
- 818.5409 21
- PS3515.A4853 Z54 2002
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 818.54 HAN | Available | 070658 |
This collection originally published: London : Futura, 1976.
Contents: 84 Charing Cross Road. Originally published: New York : Grossman Publishers, 1970 ; London : Deutsch, 1971 -The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street. Originally published: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1973 ; London : Deutsch, 1974.
"'Your ad in the 'Saturday Review of Literature' says that you specialize in out-of-print books. The phrase "antiquarian book-sellers" scares me somewhat, as I equate "antique" with expensive. I am a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books and all things I want are impossible to get over here except in very expensive rare editions, or in Barnes & Noble's grimy, marked-up schoolboy copies.'
So begins the delightfully reticent love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London. For twenty years this outspoken New York writer and Frank Doel, a rather more restrained London bookseller, carry on an increasingly touching correspondence to the point where, in early December 1949, Helene is suddenly worried that the six-pound ham she's sent off to augment British rations will arrive in a kosher office.
Soon they are sharing more personal news about Frank's family and Hanff's career. No doubt their letters would have continued, but in 1969 the firm's secretary informed Helene that Frank Doel had died. In the collection's penultimate entry, Helene Hanff urges a tourist friend, 'If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me. I owe it so much.'" -- Back cover
