Re: Lionel Britton
I first bought Britton's Hunger and Love in a dusty bookshop for £3 in 2001. I'd already put it down twice as I thought it was just too odd, but in the end I had to buy it - and it was signed (very oddly, of course) by the man himself. Now there are just four copies for sale according to Bookfinder, and none of them signed, but I just love the description of the cheapest, which is a snip at nearly £77:
'The front and back sides of the case are of silver paper, which is badly scarred. The spine is very loose, with the front of the case almost separated from the book block. Interior and outer pages are tanned from age. It looks like a little beetle or something started to drill through the 1st 50...'
This paragraph definitely has something of the dusty bookshop about it.
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