{"id":31085,"date":"2019-09-05T05:35:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T02:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=31085"},"modified":"2019-09-05T05:35:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T02:35:14","slug":"a-little-more-on-used-bookshops-in-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/05\/a-little-more-on-used-bookshops-in-providence\/","title":{"rendered":"A little more on used bookshops in Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"

1) An issue of The Antiquarian Bookman<\/em> from 1959 has an article called “New England Triple-play” which, judging by the snippets on Google Books, gives a fairly detailed multi-page boots-on-the-ground tour of Providence’s used book shops as they were at the end of the 1950s, including addresses. Regrettably, such a useful journal is not digitised and online. <\/p>\n

2) A few weeks ago I wrote here about ‘uncle’ Eddy’s bookshop and Lovecraft. I see that later there was also a Dick’s Book Shop in Providence, and that the owner made a claim to Lovecraft in the 1960s. Like uncle Eddy’s Book Shop<\/a> this shop also dealt in second-hand books. This other book shop was announced in Publishers Weekly<\/em> as moving from 487 Westminster St. in 1939, to 70 Richmond St. It then pops up in Antiquarian Bookman<\/em> and a trade directory at 102 Broad St., for a few years circa 1958-61. Then it appears back at Richmond St., at No. 44, during the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here are the basic details of this other shop’s claimed connection with Lovecraft, as remembered by ‘Jimserac’. He was commenting on a post on the blog “Notes From A Burning House: Remembrances of Bookstores Past” in July 2008… <\/p>\n

In the 60’s you could walk into Dick’s Book Shop on Richmond Street and buy a copy of Davie’s Geometry<\/em>, or any number of other antiquarian books, for maybe a dollar, two at the most and be treated to Dick’s first hand description of his personal acquaintance with H.P. Lovecraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The veracity of the owner’s remembered claim seems questionable, though. Since Dick’s appears to have been first established after<\/em> Lovecraft’s death. The shop is not found by either the “Dick” or “Dick’s” name, or the Westminster St. address, in the 1920, 1934 or 1936 Directories for Providence.<\/p>\n

Dick’s is not to be confused with the Dana bookstore. This other store appears to have been a rather more upmarket used bookstore, and judging from the brief Dana memoir of Lovecraft he almost never went in there and didn’t converse when he did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1) An issue of The Antiquarian Bookman from 1959 has an article called “New England Triple-play” which, judging by the …<\/p>\n

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