vintage n. 葡萄收获期;葡萄酒酿造期 adj. 古老的;最佳的;经典高档的 adj. 老式的;过时的 vt. 采葡萄;用葡萄酿酒 vi. 采葡萄 【vintage clothing 复古服饰】
I am a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books and all the things I want are impossible to get over here except in very expensive rare editions, or in Barnes & Noble's grimy, marked-up schoolboy copies.
over here 这里,这边 grimy adj. 肮脏的,污秽的 巴诺书店(Barnes & Noble):美国最大的零售连锁书店。
I enclose a list of my most pressing problems. If you have clean secondhand copies of any of the books on the list, for no more than $5.00 each, will you consider this a purchase order and send them to me ?