Buying It

My Barbara Pym tote bag that I received from Thomas at My Porch as a prize during Barbara Pym Reading Week has finally fulfilled its destiny...

I was in "the city" today and squeezed in time to visit  Steven Temple Books for a last go at his large collection -- his is another second hand shop that is closing down, sadly enough.

Here's what happened.

Eminently suitable

Everything unpacked!

In case you can't see those clearly, I found:

3 Margaret Millar titles, Spider Webs, Banshee, and Beyond this Point are Monsters;
2 Pyms, Civil to Strangers & Other writings and A Lot to Ask;
2 Viragos, E.M. Delafield's Thank Heaven Fasting and Phyllis Shand Allfrey's The Orchid House;
Margery Sharp's The Gipsy in the Parlour;
Carol Shields & Blanche Howard's epistolary novel A Celibate Season;
Vera Brittain's Testament of Friendship (lucky find!);
and a very unusual British ARC of Monica Dickens' The Room Upstairs

Very pleased with these finds!