Harald's Archive: C to C Bazaars, OK Bazaars, Incredible Books and L. Rubin
18. C to C Bazaars
1930s to
North-west corner of Eloff and Market Streets
New books
All I can remember is a small collection of Penguin books on a table or counter, price eight pence, UK 6cl, late 1930s. These are the first Penguins I remember, mostly fiction I think, orange-white-orange.
2000-12-27
19. OK Bazaars Eloff Street later years
In the early 1980s long after their book department had gone. They had sale tables (sometimes) where new paperbacks were to be had for about one rand each.
Monica Baldwin ‘I Leap Over the Wall’. A best seller and a remarkable book. I still have it.
Seen: ‘Odd Man Out’ by F.L. Green. But I saw the film, also that of ‘On the Night of the Fire,’ with Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard and Henry Oscar. A strange author, not to be found in my works of reference. Michael Joseph was his publisher. Robert Lusty in ‘Bound to Be Read’ says he walked with a limp.
2001-06-03
20. Incredible Books
Sept. 2000 - June 2001. Lower level, The Firs, Rosebank, Jhb
Remainders, also gifts. All on trestle tables.
21. L. Rubin
1940s to 1960s, perhaps before and beyond
West side of Harrison between Market and Commissioner
Jewish books and religious requisites but also some general books.
Bought: ‘The Bellamy Trial’ by Frances Noyes Hart (Pocket Books). Gone, but I now have a different edition from Bohemsky Yeoville.
Selected Letters of William Cowper (World’s Classics). A sale book
‘Shirley’ by C. Bronte (Nelson Classics). Bought one rainy afternoon in the 1940s. Am reminded of Phillip Marlowe’s visit to a dubious bookshop on a rainy day in ‘The Big Sleep.’
Seen: ‘Roite Pomeranzen’ by ?
In 1964 I bought two yarmulkes there.
In 1944 my mother obtained from them a Hebrew/German prayer book, ‘Gebetbuch für Israeliten’ ed. And translated by Dr. M. Sachs, latest edition, publ Jos. Schuesingers Buchhandlung, Vienna and Budapest (made in Austria, N.D.). In plain cardboard slipcase.
