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England’s Second-Hand Bookshops

Gordon Allan
Gordon Allan entered journalism straight from school in Aberdeen in 1951. After seven years on the local newspapers, interrupted by National Service in the RASC, he spent thirty years in Fleet Street, mainly as a sports sub-editor and reporter with The Times. He lives in Carshalton, Surrey.

“A mixture of fact, anecdote and quotation, this book describes the author’s exploration of the best of England’s provincial second-hand bookshops – a splendid personal view of hours spent closeted among shelves filled with every book imaginable.” The Oldie

“I would say that bookselling is the most humane, sociable, ill-organised, yet absorbing form of commerce to be found anywhere.”
Eric Moore, Hitchin bookseller

“Five million books are published in the world every year. Only one per cent of them are any good, and settle, and they end up in second-hand shops.”
Victor Suchar, Camden Books, Bath

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