The Strand Book Store

I just returned from a visit to The Strand, and more specifically, a visit to the third floor rare book room.  There I found myself purchasing book after book, so quickly that I barely had time to read the titles or to recognize the covers.  After I found that I couldn't stop buying books, I asked the kind salesman to push me into the elevator and press one.  I still don't know what I bought, how much it cost, if it will be delivered to me, when and how much the shipping will be.  Remind me to stay away from there.  When the books come I will tell you what I bought.

James Joyce

When we open the new shop, be sure to stop in and see our massive collection of works by James Joyce.  True first editions of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.  Both British and English.  Likewise with regard to Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man. And tons of commentary, gloss and critique.  As well as biography.

Unfortunately, I love them all so much, that I won't sell them to you.

Our Founder

Errata

A kind reader, Emma, wrote to admonish us with regard to our provision of live mice at the new Shoppe.  Be assured that the rodent section will be secured and any marauding mice will be water-boarded.  We don't look at it as torture.  Mice actually seem to tolerate it as a benign scolding.

We will, however, be hosting a series of events catering to venomous snakes. Each week we will invite another species to our "open mike" night, where they will be able to sinuously curl around the microphone stand and then pronounce their political views, read from selected works or in many cases rebut unfounded phobias as well as actual hate crimes that have been committed against them, in Biblical proportion.

Thanks again Emma, and a tip o' the hat from your friends at WSB.

Samuel Hankin, Prop.

Wellington Square Bookshop, Established 1635.