For six years, the author of 84 Charing Cross Road captivated audiences with her monthly BBC broadcasts about her unique adventures living in New York City. Now collected in a charming volume, these vignettes capture an intimate and quirky New York--a witty and humorous depiction that will be treasured by all her admirers.

Letter from New York/Bbc Woman's Hour Broadcasts

Biographies & Memoirs

HANFF, Helene

Historical

Perennial

Nancy Mitford meets Nora Ephron in the pages of The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff’s delightful travelogue about her “bucket list” trip to London
When devoted Anglophile Helene Hanff is invited to London for the English publication of 84, Charing Cross Road—in which she shares two decades of correspondence with Frank Doel, a British bookseller who became a dear friend—she can hardly believe her luck. Frank is no longer alive, but his widow and daughter, along with enthusiastic British fans from all walks of life, embrace Helene as an honored guest. Eager hosts, including a famous actress and a retired colonel, sweep her up in a whirlwind of plays and dinners, trips to Harrod’s, and wild jaunts to their favorite corners of the countryside. 
A New Yorker who isn’t afraid to speak her mind, Helene Hanff delivers an outsider’s funny yet fabulous portrait of idiosyncratic Britain at its best. And whether she is walking across the Oxford University courtyard where John Donne used to tread, visiting Windsor Castle, or telling a British barman how to make a real American martini, Helene always wears her heart on her sleeve. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street is not only a witty account of two different worlds colliding but also a love letter to England and its literary heritage—and a celebration of the written word’s power to sustain us, transport us, and unite us.

The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

Humor & Entertainment

Harper-perennial

Underfoot in Show Business

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

This memoir tells the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and how its success changed her. Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a Cambridge don, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. She devoured Q’s book, and, wanting to read all the books he recommended, began to order them from a small store in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Thus began a correspondence that became an enormously popular book, play, television production, and movie, and that finally led to the trip to England -- and a visit to Q’s study -- that she recounts in this exuberant memoir. Hanff pays her debt to her mentor and shares her joyous adventures with her many fans. "Reading Helene Hanff’s book is like making a new friend -- a charming, wise, and funny one." -- Betty Rollin "A potpourri . . . easy and assured . . . A delightful companion for the odd hour." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Hanff’s charm is such that when she exults . . . we exult right along with her." -- Kirkus Reviews

Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books

History

84, Charing Cross Road

Arts & Literature

Grossman

First English edition. The author who has carried on a love affair with England and her bookshops via the mail finally goes to England and visits the shops. 136 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Travelers & Explorers

HarperCollins Distribution Services

Apple of My Eye

"Helene Haniff's dry Manhattan is another irreverent tour de force, as idiosyncratic and cordial as 84, CHARING CROSS ROAD, with a similar cumulative lilt. Her New York comes complete with rush hour crush, evidence of vandalism, bureaucratic runarounds, and incomparable felicities. Friend Patsy Gibbs serves as perfect foil, a West Sider to her East Side moorings.

Apple of my eye

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Science & Math

Mathematics

Little,Brown

First edition, second printing. Book collector Helene Hanff discusses the early beginnings of her great love for books, which started with a collection of essays by a professor known simply as 'Q'. Hanff is the author of 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD. 177 pages. 1985 , 8vo., paper over boards, dust jacket..

Q's LEGACY

Andre Deutsch

It's a book about show business, where fame is the stock in trade. Each year there are hundreds of stagestruck kids arrive in New York determined to crash the theatre, firmly convinced they're destined to be famous Broadway stars or playwrights.

Underfoot in show business

Regional U.S.

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