CMP Review 2025-06-30

June 30, 2025

“After all, a good bookshop is a more thrilling place than any library, however admirable, can be… No library can afford the occasion for struggles of soul so tense as these; and the bookseller is richer than the librarian by the nature of his opportunity.

“But the majority of people go to a bookshop … not knowing what they want. That is the good bookseller’s chance.” (Felix Hope, PR35, “Readers and Critics, Part II”)

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