Secondhand in Chiswick

On Sundays Robert plays tennis in Chiswick and last weekend he suggested that I walked there to meet him for lunch. The transition from the, frankly, run-down purlieus of Hammersmith to chi-chi Chiswick is remarkable.

Say goodbye to grubby King Street and hello to Killick (stockbrokers), Waitrose (two branches), upmarket eateries and, yo, secondhand bookshops. Foster Books is a second generation shop with high quality stock.

Foster Books, Chiswick High Road, August 2017.
Foster Books, August 2017.

Close to Turnham Green tube Oxfam has a shop specialising in secondhand books. Here is my haul from them both.

When I lived in Singapore in 1989 I used to watch the Granada TV adaptation of Len Deighton’s trilogy, Berlin Game, Mexico Set, London Match, but I have never read them. Berlin Game is a first edition, London Match an uncorrected proof signed by LD. Meanwhile on the river by Hammersmith Bridge the bronze of Capability Brown has been repaired.

Capability Brown by Laury Dizengremel, August 2017.