2. [ ] Unnamed Bookshop

2. [ ] Unnamed Bookshop

Harald Herzog, who documented decades worth of central Joburg bookshops, gives us his second description: a Bookshop with No Name

[         ] I don’t think this bookshop displayed a name

1940s, about 2 years
East side of Wanderers between De Villiers and Noord, or possibly between Plein and De Villiers.

Run and probably owned by two men; one with fair hair, medium height, thirties (the bookman); the other younger, tall, good-looking named Michael Lupton (I heard him give his name to someone on the phone while I was in the shop.) One day they were gone. An elderly man, wearing a hat I think, was selling off the stock in batches of 3 or 4 books tied with a piece of string.

Used books only.

Bought: Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz 1928 for 3/6.
Hulbein's Dance of Death, Bohn's Library (at the sale)
Seen : a small book of poems by Amy Levy with a portrait. Joseph Grimaldi by Dickens, an old PB, poor.
A portfolio of pictures by Birket Foster, tied with a ribbon, suitable for framing, mounted on dark grey paper.

        1999-11-20

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