Walking through Acres of Books; or, a stream of consciousness

Noctes Ambrosianae?...Nope, incomplete set...Well, here are all the Modern Library books. There seems to be a surfeit of Jean Christophe and The Complete Works of Keats and Shelley, but, no, no collected works of Beddoes...Will I survive without Eugene Sue? Probably...I wonder if I'm the one responsible for buying out all of their old Everymans...That book on Victorian painting looks interesting...No, it doesn't look $40-worth of interesting...OK, here's a book on the Pre-Raphaelites in nice shape--but, nah, the choice of paintings isn't particularly original...I could go ahead and buy Monypenny and Buckle...On the other hand, I don't want two random volumes of Monypenny and Buckle, strike that...Do I or do I not have Pope-Hennessy's biography of Monckton Milnes?...Let me grab that book on Victorian politics...There's the second volume of Longford's biography of Wellington...Do I already have the second or the first volume?...Oh, well, for $10 I can afford to take a risk...I could use that Retha Warnicke biography for my project on Anne Boleyn...Yeah, but it's Anne Boleyn, for crying out loud, you'll never use the book again once you're done with the article...Just how many copies of Blake's Disraeli can one used bookstore have, anyway?...Beaty on the Middlemarch notebooks looks useful...How about Sperry on Keats?...Er, there's no price here...Hamer, Longford, and Beaty it is.

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[Annette]

This reminds me so much of one part of 84 Charing Cross Road. :)