"I had never been inside a proper antiquarian bookstore before--had not dared to because I was certain I could never afford a really rare book. But now I couldn't resist a peek, and pushed open the door, ready to flee if the staff made me out as a cheap customer. I was greeted affably by a young man at a desk who asked me to feel free to ask him where what was. I asked if they carried modern first editions and he replied that the store was full of nothing but modern first editions, especially in philosophy, poetry and fiction."--Pradeep Sebastian, writing in the Hindu about his visit to a "very special store," Lame Duck Books, Cambridge, Mass.