Foyles: A Celebration and 50 similar items

Birkitts Books presents ... Foyles: A Celebration ISBN: 0954495209 Author: Penny Mountain Publisher: W. G. Foyle Ltd Release Date: 2003-05-07 Seller Category: History Qty Available: 1 Condition: Used: Very Good Sku: 231022007 Notes: Pictorial boards have minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Towards the Oxford Street end stands one of the really extraordinary enterprises of the book world ? Foyles.Two brothers began this shop. By sheer genius they made it the busiest centre for the sale of books known to me. One may go at any time of day into any of the departments ? and there seems no end to them ? and find everywhere a packed concentration of students seeking books and advice. The atmosphere is that of a great, preoccupied busy-ness; the assistants are inexhaustible encyclopedias; whole ranges of cheap classics, new school books, histories, dictionaries, novels, and in fact everything, as far as everything can now be obtained, is at hand for the student's need. There is, of course, a rare book department in Foyles, where those more exclusive in taste can rove; but for the most part this is a store for men and women of small means in search of essential tools. As an institution it is overwhelming.' Frank Swinnerton, The Bookman's London, 1951 Don't forget to check out other great deals in our Store!!