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BooksatRichmond5822 is an Independent book dealership owned by David Cowell, a life long collector of writers such as Dylan Thomas, Brendan Behan, James Baldwin, Jim Phelan and Bruce Chatwin. David prides himself on running a fair trade company and welcomes you back as an existing or as a new customer.
Our own eclectic inventory of thousands of books and access, via abe, to millions more makes BooksatRichmond5822 almost certain to have the book you are seeking.
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To access the 110 million books that reside on the abe site just select author, title, keyword or ISBN below and enter the appropriate details and click search.
If that does not find the book you are seeking then do email me, using the contact us link above, the title, author, publisher, year published, ISBN number, paperback or hardback or as much information you have and I will do my best to find you a copy.
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People often ask where the name BooksatRichmond5822 came from. When in 2002 I decided to set up a virtual bookshop I struggled with what to call it. Waterstones had already been taken and David's Books sounded a bit naff (apologies if your shop's called David's Books). I have a Dylan Thomas collection and for £10 I purchased a 1955 reprint of his Collected Poems 1934-1952. This book had been owned by a poet called Anthony Rye who obviously had met Dylan one day in London and asked him where he could be contacted. Inside the book on a piece of lined blue paper torn from a small notebook and in Thomas' distinctive handwriting it said "Dylan Richmond 5822". So now you know. I have tried to trace whose house he was staying without success but I know that Mervyn Levy and Bill McAlpine lived in Richmond.
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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it”J. D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye