"This Shop is Haunted"

"THIS SHOP IS HAUNTED by the ghosts
Of all great literature, in hosts;
          We sell no fakes or trashes.
Lovers of books are welcome here,
No clerks will babble in your ear,
         Please smoke—but don't drop ashes!

Browse as long as you like.
Prices of all books plainly marked.
If you want to ask questions, you'll find the proprietor
         where the tobacco smoke is thickest.
We pay cash for books.
We have what you want, though you may not know
         you want it.
→Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious
         thing.
Let us prescribe for you.
         By R. & H. MIFFLIN,
                Proprs.

Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop 1919 (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1955), p. 13.