Viva Lewes Issue #124 January 2017

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COLUMN David Jarman 84, Lewes High Street Between 1926 and 1928 there was a secondhand bookshop at the junction of Shaftesbury Avenue and High Holborn. Hanging outside, a sign, painted by Edward Wadsworth, read, without definite article or capitals, varda bookshop. The proprietor, briefly married to the Greek surrealist artist, Janko Varda, was always known, tout court, as Varda, rather than by her Christian name of Dorothy. Quite possibly the only London bookseller to have starred in one of CB Cochran’s revues at the Pavilion Theatre, Varda had also translated the first of Raymond Radiguet’s two precocious novels. The translation, alas, never found a publisher. (TS Eliot was one of those who, not without regrets, turned it down). The composer, Constant Lambert, lived in one of the two small flats above the shop and was occasionally called upon to help out. He complained that he always hit upon a day when all the lunatics in London had been let out to buy their books. When I worked in a secondhand bookshop on the Charing Cross Road in 1983, every day seemed like that. After all, as George Orwell points out in his essay Bookshop Memories, reminiscing about his time at Booklovers’ Corner, a shop in Hampstead: ‘In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang around for a long time without spending any money’. Orwell wrote Bookshop Memories in 1936, but his observations seem very pertinent to my experience working in various bookshops in the seventies and eighties. I especially recognise the customer type evoked in: ‘the dear old lady who read such a nice book in 1897 and wonders whether you can find her a copy. Unfortunately she doesn’t remember the title or the author’s name or what the book was about, but she does remember that it had a red cover’. Perhaps it was something like this that inspired a colleague at Foyles in 1977 to completely overhaul the Poetry section that he was in charge of. Abandoning alphabetical order or chronology, he rearranged the whole stock by the colour of the spine. But however eccentric the customers or the staff, many bookshop yarns strike me as inherently implausible. The story that Anthony Powell tells about the Varda Bookshop in his autobiography, for example, is surely apocryphal: ‘One afternoon, when a friend was understudying Varda in the shop, a customer asked if they had Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound. The works of the Romantic School were then not much in fashion, and the proxy replied: "No, but I’m sure I’ve seen a bound copy on the shelves." It’s over forty years since I started work in my first bookshop, but I cannot in any way emulate the forty years continuous civilising presence on Lewes High Street that A&Y Cumming chalked up last year. In the 1991 edition of Drif’s Guide to Bookshops in Britain Andrew Cumming is described as ‘one of the most admired booksellers in England’. True then, equally true now. Photo by Alex Leith 29
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