Alan G. Thomas is a Bournemouth-based antiquarian bookseller (of Commin's Bookshop, Bournemouth, England), bibliophile and Lawrence Durrell scholar. He came to know the young writers-in-the-making Lawrence and Gerald Durrell soon after their family moved to Bournemouth in 1932 'becoming a kind of extra brother to the boys and a lifelong friend' and correspondent. Alan Thomas is the editor of "Spirit of Place: Essays and Letters on Travel" (1969), … Wikipedia
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