Special Movie Edition. now on the screen in a new musical adaptation-.Abridged Edition- Published by Signet of the New American Library New York in 1975. This stiff card cover 320 page copy is in top order- almost as new-has 8 pages of mono photos from the film. About this title-According to Dickens, Mr Daniel Quilp is a bent-over, hook-nosed dwarf, with a "ghastly smile... appearing to be the mere result of habit and to have no connexion with any mirthful or complacent feeling". A cold-hearted miser and money-lending monster of iniquity, he became landlord of the Old Curiosity Shop, after cruelly evicting the tenants, Little Nell Trent and her destitute grandfather. Quilp pursues the forlorn pair with unremitting hatred, finally driving them to their torturous, exhausting deaths.

This of course is fiction. The true Mr Quilp, upon whom Dickens loosely based his famous story, is behind you. He is a rather shadowy gentleman, who may sometimes appear as you wander about The Shop. You may rest assured; he will look after you as one of his own. Collect or NZ Post $2.