Once upon a time,
back in the Eighties and into the Nineties,
BOOKLAND
was a neat and incredibly well run,
used book store and it was run by a French Canadian guy, who's name I cannot remember.
Harry Kremer, the owner and operator of
NOW & THEN BOOKS,
of Kitchener (and the first big time distributor of Dave Sim's Cerebus) knew the guy who owned Bookland pretty well...
they were both fans of Show Tune albums!
Anyway, while reading a bunch of
P. G. Wodehouse books, that we bought years ago and put away for future reading, I discovered that one of them was stamped with the Bookland name and address.
It means nothing, but since the store it self, no longer exists, it is a neat piece of nostalgia and affirms that the place did, once, have a place on my list of regular haunts.
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