Adventures of a Bookseller

'I spoke of his bad habit of sitting in my shop for hours and obstructing the business. ... there were others of the same type, Italians as well as foreginers, who just dropped in there and sat tight and chattered and never bought anything, treating the place as if it were a kind of club.' First published in a limited edition in Florence in 1937; frontispiece portrait of the author by Dame Laura Knight, with tissue guard as issued.

Publisher: Chatto and Windus. First English edition
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Spots of foxing to foredge, else fine in dustwrapper with a couple of nicks.


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