"JAMES BOND has not had such a battle with communism since From Russia With Love, but on the walls of Richard Platt’s bookshop in Blackheath, southeast London, 007 is about to lose out to Mao Zedong, or rather half a dozen prints of Mao from Shanghai (£149 each).
The front room of the Bookshop on the Heath is dominated as much by pictures as words. Ancient maps and rare photos of the Beatles fight for space with engagingly odd books that tempt you to open them — such as a history of Bovril advertising or a 19th-century gilt Bible in Welsh. But it is Bond that sells best, Platt sells a Bond film poster every fortnight."

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