Onitsha Market Literature
From : Life Turns Man Up and Down: Highlife, Useful Advise and Mad English. (New York: Pantheon Books, 2001).
Your private librarian’s book about books.
A collection that evolved out of my much cherished 20 year long association with Bill French of University Place Books in a Greenwich Village long ago and far away. This is a short introduction to the Onitsha Market Literature collection he introduced and bequeathed to me that is the book’s subject. For more on the book, available at Jumel Terrace Books, see the website Life Turns Man Up and Down.
![Albert Hadley\'s Astor Library (Feliciano for NY Times)](https://www.the-private-library.com/wp-content/gallery/eyecandy/hadley-astor_-feliciano_0.jpg "\\"Perhaps (Albert Hadley\'s) most celebrated work was the library at the Park Avenue home of Brooke Astor. He transformed a high-ceilinged faux-French drawing room into a strikingly elegant space with red-lacquered shelves and brass trim befitting a client who had given considerable philanthropic support to libraries, especially the New York Public Library.\\" Bruce Weber")
