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Lady Gail's Book Shop & Curios is a wonderful bookshop located in the small NSW town of Holbrook, about halfway between Sydney and Melbourne, and currently situated on the Hume Highway, although a bypass is presently under construction. For a secondhand book enthusiast it will be worth the brief deviation, however, for the house pictured above contains four rooms with walls completely lined with books for sale and it is open every day of the week. Many of the books she has (including Penguins) are priced at only $1.00 each. And Holbrook itself is worth a quick visit for anyone with young children, as the submarine which gives the town its name is a feature of the local park. I saw many other collectible novels at Lady Gail's, the type which other shops probably tend to reject or pulp, such as vintage copies of Pan and Fontana paperbacks. The stock of vintage Penguins is never particularly extensive, due to Gail's cheap prices, her very high-turnover, and my tendency to buy much that she gets in, but it is always interesting. My most recent purchase from Gail was a number of early Penguin Handbooks.
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