Re: So it is true...

On 6 Dec 2005 02:20:38 -0800, Seán O'Leathlóbhair
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in sci.lang:

> Brian M. Scott wrote:

[...]

>> London: Foyle's, Hatchard's, Dillon's in Gower Street (which
>> Google tells me is now a Waterstone's), and others that I
>> don't remember. Oxford: Blackwell's. Cambridge: Heffers,
>> of course; they seem to have retained their name on the
>> ground, but I see that their online branch is run by
>> Blackwell's. All manner of secondhand and antiquarian
>> shops, of course, but the only one whose name comes to mind
>> at the moment is Peter Bell in Edinburgh.

> Your knowledge of British bookshops is impressive.

Well, I spent on awful lot of time in them back in the late
70s and early 80s when I went over there for a month every
summer. (And I didn't even mention Dark They Were and
Golden-Eyed in Queen Anne's Court, which I understand went
out of business years ago. Or a certain amusing but rather
disreputable shop in Old Compton Road ... .)

[...]

Brian
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