84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

Jean De Baer: Maxine Stuart

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• Maxine Stuart : The shelves go on forever. They go up to the ceiling and they're very old and kind of gray - like old oak that absorbed so much dust over the years they no longer are their true color. There's a print selection - or rather a long print table with Cruikshank, Rackham, and Spy and all those old wonderful English caricaturists and illustrators that I'm not smart enough to know a lot about. And there are some lovely old. old illustrated magazines.

• Maxine Stuart : It's a lovely old shop, straight out of Dickens. You would go absolutely out of your mind over it. There are stalls outside and I stopped to leaf through a few things just to establish myself as a browser before wandering in. It's dim inside. You can smell the shop before you see it. It's a lovely smell. I can't articulate it easily, but it combines must and dust and age and walls of wood and floors of wood. Toward the back of the shop, at the left, there's a desk with a work lamp on it. A man was sitting there with a Hogarth nose.