Hanff's New York apartment and the dusty Dickensian reaches of Marks & Co. Such were the unlikely beginnings of a long and happy friendship-by-mail, a BBC television drama, a Broadway play, and a curiously affecting little book called ''84, Charing Cross Road,'' the collection of letters that made their way between Ms. Addressing it to ''Marks & Co., 84, Charing Cross Road,'' she requested a Latin Bible, a book of Hazlitt's essays, and other volumes on a list of her ''most pressing problems.'' In 1949 Helene Hanff, then an impoverished young writer with a rich taste for out-of-print literature, wrote a letter to a used-book shop in London.
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