There are many streets in London
containing shops dealing in book-selling. (36) the best known
of these is Charing Cross Road in the very. (37) of London.
Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes (38) to be found,
from the celebrated one which (39) to be "the biggest
bookshop in the world" to the (40) dusty places which seem
to have been (41) over from Dickens’s time. Some of these
shops (42) , or will obtain (获得), any kind of book, but
many of (43) feature (特征,特写) secondhand books, art books,
foreign books or books on philosophy (哲学), politics or any other of the
(44) subjects about which books may be written. One shop in
this area specializes only (45) hooks about ballet(芭蕾舞)!
(46) it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to
(47) books, Chafing Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the
(48) cheap secondhand books, the collector must try some
(49) places, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East
central (50) of London. Here there is nothing so
magnificent as bookshops. (51) the book- sellers come
along each morning and throw out their (52) of books on to
small carts which line the road. 53 the collectors, some
professional (职业的,专业人员) and some amateur (业余的, 业余爱好者) , who have been
(54) for them, rush upon the dusty books. In places like this one can
still, (55) pick up for a few pence an old edition that may
be worth many pounds.