If, in those days, you walked up form Trafalgar Square into Charing Cross Road, you would come in a few minutes to a shop on the right-hand side that had above the window the words WILLIAM BUGGAGE - RARE BOOKS.
An edition of The Bookseller
(1988)
De boekhandelaar
by Roald Dahl
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Mr. William Buggage and his secretary Miss Tottle run a secret business out of Buggage's Rare Book Shop in London. Every day they read the obituaries and draft custom invoices to send to the grieving widow. The invoices list various European books of pornography and sexual deviance. The horrified widows always pay quickly to keep the matter from the presses. Mr. Buggage and Miss Tottle have made thousands of pounds using this method, and they use their ill-gotten gains to take lavish trips together. But then, one day, they make a fatal error ...
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Geschenk Boekhandel Scheltema, Holkema & Vermeulen. - Niet in de handel.
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