ISBN: 978-1906562830

IRONJAWS
BOOK REVIEW
est. 2014

REVIEW NO:
# 11

DATE: 30th December 2015.

TITLE: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (Slightly Foxed
Editions No. 32)

PUBLICATION: London: Slightly Foxed Editions. 240 pp.

FIRST SENTENCE: Gentlemen: Your ad in the Saturday Review

of Literature says that you specialize in out-of-print books.

REVIEW (max. 150 words): No. 32 in the Slightly Foxes series,

(incl. the sequel The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street) is a

twenty-year correspondence between Marks & Co. (short for
Marks & Cohen, not Marks and Company), an antiquarian booksellers at 84, Charing Cross Road, London and Helene Hanff, a
scriptwriter from New York.
The distant FDP who started signing Marks & Co.s letters
emerges as Frank Doel, and Faithfully Yours gave way to
With best wishes, and eventually simply Love Frank.
Foreword by Maggie Fergusson. Bound in red cloth by Smith
Settle. With purple paper endpapers, silk ribbon, head- and
tailband, gold blocking to spine though title almost invisible,
and blind blocking to front.
First published by Slightly Foxed in 2015 in a hand-numbered
limited edition of 2,000 copies of which this copy is no. 476.
First edition published by Andre Deutsch Ltd. in 1971 and The
Duchess of Bloomsbury Street in 1974.

QUOTES:

If youre borne in the US with a yearning love of classical

scholarship and no college education, you are awed by a school
in which for centuries boys have learned to read and write
Greek and Latin fluently by the time theyre in their teens.

RATING: Exellent. 4 stars.

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