Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780140089363ISBN:0140089365
Description: A good reading copy only. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. -, Trade PaperBack, Good / read more
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Edition: Large type / large print.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780896216891ISBN:0896216896
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Stamps, stickers etc. typical of ex-library book. Otherwise, in great shape w/light shelf wear. Hard cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Press, Thorndike, MA, Large Print Edition
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780896216891ISBN:0896216896
Description: Hardcover, 252 pp, Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Glossy boards with pictorial cover. Ex library with minimal marks. Cardpocket and front ffep removed. Square edition with clean text. Large print autobiography. , 0896216896. read more
Description: SOFTBOUND, GOOD+ CONDITION-Clean Sound Copy- If you REQUEST A SCAN from me I will send you one. NO WRITING OR MARKS IN BOOK- Penguin (1986), 0140089365. read more
Description: SOFTBOUND, VERY GOOD CONDITION-Clean Sound Copy- If you REQUEST A SCAN from me I will send you one. NO WRITING OR MARKS IN BOOK- Penguin (1987), 0140089365. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Deutsch
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780233978109ISBN:0233978100
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Wi
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780745170046ISBN:0745170048
Description: Good. This is a LARGE PRINT EX-LIBRARY copy, in the following condition. This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Viking Pr
Date Published: 1986-08-01
ISBN-13:9780140089363ISBN:0140089365
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Company, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780316343404ISBN:0316343404
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. 177 pp. Slight spine lean. Pictorial dustjacket shows slight wear at corners plus edgewear with few short closed tears, else a very good copy. read more
"Well, I'm glad I pursued this second sequel to "84 Charing Cross Road", but I think this one came up a bit short. Perhaps everyone just so much loved the "voice" of Helene that they kept asking her to write...and she had only one 'great' book in her. This story is again more of the "how I came to write '84'" stuff. There are, of course, a few really great quips and memories that make the book worth reading and, again, I'd love to be one of her friends seeing New York City through her eyes, but sometimes enough is enough.
If all three books -- 84 Charing Cross Road, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, and Q's Legacy -- were in one volume and edited accordingly, it probably would work better than in the present form.
There's just this little, niggling voice inside me that said she wrote this one for the rent money, even though she was quite famous by the time it came out. Is that a reason not to write? Perhaps much great literature was written for the rent money. This one is a bit, just a bit, too transparent on that score."
"These are pretty much Helene Hanff's memoirs. She tells about how she struggled to make a career as a writer for years and years until she finally found a hit with 84, Charing Cross Road. (This struggle and her autodidacticism reminded me very much of Jack London's Martin Eden.) She continues to tell about how she came to write The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street (which itself is a book about her book 84, Charing Cross Road) and then how 84, Charing Cross Road was turned into a film and then a play. Over all, this was amusing, but Ms. Hanff comes off as being unreasonable and more than a bit batty--someone with whom, had we been contemporaries, I probably wouldn't have hit it off (not that I'm not unreasonable and a bit batty myself). I enjoyed this much more than 84, Charing Cross Road but not as much as The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street."
"Someone has said that this book is a love letter to life, learning, books and bibliophiles. I couldn't say it better. Read it after you've read the two 84 Charing Cross books though."
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