Description
First edition of 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff.
Octavo, 97pp. Red cloth boards, title in white on spine. Stated “first printing” on copyright page. Solid text block, slight ripple to endpapers, top edge dyed red, a near fine copy. In publisher’s dust jacket, $4.95 retail price on front flap, light wear to top edge, small mark in marker made to verso, a near fine example.
Helene Hanff (1916-1977), an avid reader, writer, and customer of Booksellers of London. Marks and Co., antiquarian booksellers in London, England. This book catalogues all the letters she wrote to Marks and Co., and the responses she received from Frank Doel, over a twenty-year period.
