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Best-friend books.(Barbara Yoffee, bookseller)(Brief Article)

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From: Victoria
Date: 20010501
Author:MICHAEL, TERRY

"As a children's bookseller specializing in antiquarian and out-of-print books, I meet quite a few people who want to recall their childhood by finding the books they used to read," says Barbara Yoffee of her and her husband's Children's Book Adoption Agency. With more than twenty-thousand books, the Yoffees can usually find the exact edition of the book requested, whether it's a pristine first edition of Laura Lee Hope's "The Bobbsey Twins" or a lesser-known, dog-eared text that was once someone s best friend. "We're constantly faced with a challenge, but it's such fun when we ...

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