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I went up to London today and met up with Fridge. We both took some photos and I've put mine up on Flickr.

I have spent hours and hours walking round that shop scanning shelves for oddities. I have a feeling I'll be dreaming books tonight!

We made some progress: I managed (eventually) to find the copy of Wind In The Willows in the Crime section. Most pages were blank, but one page had mostly illegible disappearing text, and one other page had a short passage:

Quote:

Now I've Dinah's guardian
My book won't be ignored
With her logistical ways
And her curious gaze
She'll make many much money fffor Ffforde!

The triple fs were actually in the book, and aren't a typo on my part

The back of the book said at the top (hand written)

Quote:

THIS BELONGS IN CRIME

and the blurb said

Quote:

The Dupine Popular Classics Collection

is the most comprehensive collection of popular classic book
titles. No home library is complete without a selection from
this range of famous and well loved titles, be it romance,
horror, fantasy, thriller or racy novel - the Popular Classics
Collection has the book you 'need to read'.

Titles in this collection include Alice in Wonderland, Franken-
stein, Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, The Picture of
Dorian Gray, Three Men in a Boat, The Wind in the Willows,
Wuthering Heights and many more.

The ISBN on the back was 9780141439813 - I've just searched for this, and it's not a valid ISBN.

Fridge managed to find the copy of Wuthering Heights in the Relationships bit of the self-help sort of books. Only one page with text in this book, which read

Quote:

You judged me too quickly
But now I shine with pride
I've nicked her lovely words
And now this book has nowt inside.

The back was exactly the same as the Wind In The Willows book.

We trawled the entire shop, and couldn't find any others. I left, assuming the other books had yet to appear, but soon got a message from Fridge saying he'd found Pride & Prejudice, in the Politics section (the shelf was, I think, labelled British Political Parties). I went back, found it, and it had one page with the following text

Quote:

If nobody sees the breeze in the trees
Does the breeze in the trees really blow?
This quaint little group,
(One of whom just says 'poop')
Now reside in my Pepys Fffiasco.

Again, the back was exactly the same as the Wind In The Willows. I tried hunting round for others, but was getting the bookshelf equivalent of highway hypnosis, so eventually left without finding any others. I didn't get round to visiting the Dickens Museum, so maybe someone else can go and check that out at some point.

I don't know if it's at all relevant, but the Wind In The Willows and Wuthering Heights had yellow and black covers, and Pride & Prejudice had a pale green cover (the colour doesn't really show in my photos).