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Vintage advert for Foyles ("The World's Greatest Bookshop"). I spotted this in a 1947 edition of the BBC's weekly magazine "The Listener". How I wish I could travel back in time, walk through the doors on 119-125 Charing Cross Road, and wander leisurely around the book aisles...
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I think I'd purchase these 1947 latest releases:
'One Fine Day' by Millie Panter Downes
'The Plague' by Albert Camus
And I'd also pick up the latest Famous Five & Nancy Drew mysteries, plus as many Penguin Tribands that I could carry back with me for Pigeon Post 👌😉
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If you could travel back to Foyles in 1947  which book(s) would you purchase? Goodreads has a list of popular books published in 1947 which is a good place to start...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/popular_by_date/1947
I'm also amazed to see that "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown was published in 1947. It's lovely to know that book is still going strong 70 years later.
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