Find of the Week

On the Road
by Jack Kerouac (1958)

It's been a year since we adopted this pretty little bookshop from the lovely Mrs Kree and Mr Adam. A year! Holy shit! The things we have seen! The memories!

There was the time the cops threatened to send us to Long Bay for not having a dealer's license ("Umm, I just Googled it and, actually, we don't need one, Officer").

There was the time I drove ten hours to do a house call that consisted of a single dusty box of year old Women's Weekly magazines.

There are the dozens of book fairs at which we literally trip-up grannies and dry-hump Enid Blyton collectors (it psychs them out).

And there are the dear customers, Fruit Loops the lot of you, making us dance for our supper every single day (how we love to dance for our supper!).

And then, in our anniversary week, along comes a sign from the Heavens. What is it, you ask? The ghost of Samuel Beckett has decided to haunt the store? There is treasure buried under our floor boards? We've found a Gutenberg Bible at a garage sale in Mona Vale? No, it's much better than all these things combined. We've scored a First UK Edition copy of Jack Kerouac's On The Road. Only 3000 were printed and only a small fraction of those remain. It's in reasonable shape, too.

Oh my, we're sweaty, and it's the middle of freakin' winter!

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