I've been doing some research for bookstores. See, I have this fantasy in my head of starting a penpal - like relationship with someone in a shop like this. Someone I can go to with questions on the classics, someone who shares the same love of the smell/feel of old books, someone like Frank Doel from 84 Charing Cross Rd. Haha, if you get that movie reference then props to you!!! I'll send you a box with eggs, ham, and raisins ;)
Here's a place I've written to, Bauman Rare Books, to see if they have a small book of Yeats poems containing Cloths of Heaven. I've found many mass manufactured, glue bound, blindingly white paged books containing this poem; not that those are bad, just not my style. I want a book that smells like my grandfather's attic, pages slightly yellowed with age, with no picture of the author plastered on the back. A book that's been around the block a few times so that it not only contains a story, but could probably tell a few stories itself. Is that too much to ask?
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