: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.
:31:01
It should be read by a fire,
in a leather easy chair...
:31:05
...not on some second-hand,
overstuffed seat...
:31:07
...in a broken-down brownstone front.
:31:10
If I was this book,
I'd want to live right here.
:31:19
You're right.
:31:23
Dear Miss Hanff:
:31:25
Sorry for the delay in answering,
but I've been out of town for a week.
:31:30
I'm now trying to catch up
on my correspondence.
:31:33
Let's see.
:31:35
You look lovely.
:31:38
First of all...
:31:39
...please don't worry about us
using old books for wrapping.
:31:43
Mary, you can wear it tomorrow.
:31:45
In this case, they were two odd volumes
with the covers detached.
:31:49
They're so good.
:31:51
Nobody would have given us
a shilling for them.
:31:55
Come along.
:31:57
Jump in.
:31:58
- I'll see to that.
- Thanks.