The Bookshop

by Penelope Fitzgerald

$375 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Green boards titled in gilt. Fine in near fine dust jacket slightest fading to spine panel of dust jacket . Uncommon. Item #365626 Sharp, darkly comic novel of the misadventures of Mrs. Florence Green, a widow who determines to set up a bookshop in a village in Suffolk in the late 1950s; she sells hundreds of copies of the Olympia Press Lolita but the local powers and minor

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