:29:01
Quite a nice Jonson.
:29:02
Printed on India paper,
original blue cloth binding...
:29:06
...1905.
:29:08
Inscription in ink on the flyleaf,
but a good second-hand copy.
:29:12
Price: $2.
:29:14
Swinburne.
:29:16
We quote before sending,
in case you've already purchased a copy.
:29:20
Hardy, limited edition.
:29:23
Very nice.
:29:29
Some time ago you asked us
for Newman's Idea of a University.
:29:33
Very nice indeed.
:29:34
Are you interested in a first edition?
:29:37
We'll put that aside for Miss Hanff.
:29:41
He has a first edition
of Newman's University for $6!
:29:45
"Do I want it?" He asks innocently.
:29:53
Dear Frank: Yes, I want it!
:29:57
I won't be fit to live with myself.
:30:01
I don't care about first editions per se,
but a first edition of that book!
:30:15
Well!
:30:16
All I have to say to you, Frank Doel...
:30:20
...is we live in depraved
and degenerate times...
:30:23
...when a bookshop tears up
beautiful old books...
:30:27
...to use as wrapping paper.
:30:30
Worse, you tore the book up
in the middle of a battle...
:30:34
...and I don't even know which war it was!
:30:36
Thank you.
:30:38
Take a look at this. Isn't that beautiful?
:30:42
It's beautiful.
:30:44
It's a first edition, my dear.
One hundred years old.
:30:47
It's beautiful.
:30:49
I feel guilty owning it.
All that leather and gold stamping.
:30:54
It belongs in a library
in some English country home.