LAARMANS ANTIQUARIAAT
        
   Goes | Holland | card 14 cm | details of the shop on the back
   illustrations by the renowned Dutch graphic designer
   Joost Veerkamp 
       
   The second-hand bookshop Laarmans is owned by August 
   Verdonck and specializes in Dutch Indie letters and literature.
   Frans Laarmans is the name of a character in the work of the
   Flemish author Willem Elsschot. In the review by Chris Baker
   written about Elsschot's novel Cheese, where Laarmans is
   the protagonist, we read: "I suspect that there is a bit of
   Laarmans in everyone. Everyone eventually daydreams about
   leaving our daily jobs and making it on our own." After this
   words, I guess to know why August Verdonck named his
   shop after Laarmans in 1989.
     
    www.xs4all.nl/~laarmans/