Second hand bookshops are the ones. The one in Whitstable I've already mentioned. There's another in Faversham presided over by a man with a splendid beard. I got De la Mare's 'Peacock Pie' there, the one with the illustrations by Heath Robinson. Didn't cost much, either. Amazon's all very well, but you have to know what you want and I never do. One thing I really liked about New York was that big bookshop with the second hand bit. London used to have lots in the Charing Cross Road but I don't live there any more and I don't know how many are left.
I came across second hand books in Amsterdam in one of those flea markets.
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