including a US first edition of Tolkien's "The Silmarillion" for $2. Have you actually read it though I like Tolkien, but that one does my head in.
I didn't say that I'd actually read it....I shall, though. Eventually. I buy books like crazy, faster than I can read them in fact, drives the trouble-and-strife crazy. That and my old car fixation. At least she always knows where I am (in the garage or reading something. Sometimes reading something in the garage) and that I'm not off chasing other women
Oh, not a Chevy. A Bugatti maybe, or an Aston Martin, and you know the likelihood of that ever happening? No, she indulges my hobbies and that is a rare find indeed.
The Silmarillionandonandonandonandon is a bit of a rite of passage, if your brain survives the heady mix of utter confusion and numbing tedium you probably qualify as a proper fan... never met anyone who read it twice though.
Oh, not a Chevy. A Bugatti maybe, or an Aston Martin, and you know the likelihood of that ever happening? Oh dear, obviously no taste in cars if you like Bugattis. An E-type or even better, a Jag SS/100
I have an MGB......I suppose it's a bit naff in comparison, but still. I only used the Bugatti reference as an example
Kitty, the TC is nice but damn uncomfortable. How about this beauty: Staffs, the MGB must turn some heads in your neck of the woods - they must all know the eccentric Englishman
They prowl the remaindered/unsold stock shops & charity shops buying up everything decent and then try to sell it on eBay or in their horrid little shops for stupid prices. I hold them responsible for charity shops recently working under the strange assumption that so many old (pre 1980) books are surely worth at least a tenner. Funny how the ones that still shift books for £3 maximum have turnover whereas the optimists stock never seems to move... I 'ates 'em. I know this a old post but it fits with what I came across in A Oxfam charity shop, today I found a book called I'll Be Seeing You-all about WW2 postcards now I know of this book and so picked it up had a browse and thought yes I will have this...............NO I WONT it was £15 and good old Oxfam, had been on the net and found it valued at the supposed lower scale of £17............. well I put it back, came home and found it at the reall low scale of a fiver thing is I knew when I saw the price I had seen it cheaper on ebay for starters then the copy I found which was one of 7 cheaper was on Abebooks, so just where do these charity shops get these wonderous valuations from
I still find the Oxfam dedicated bookshops take the michael. They appear to look on the Internerd, find the second-highest price, and choose that. They've annoyed many secondhand sellers too: BBC NEWS | UK | Booksellers complain about Oxfam I think I'd blame the Internet as much as anything though, eBay's almost killed the carboot, & It's sort of crept up on me that there are almost no secondhand bookshops in Leicester left compared to a few years ago,
The Silmarillionandonandonandonandon is a bit of a rite of passage, if your brain survives the heady mix of utter confusion and numbing tedium you probably qualify as a proper fan... never met anyone who read it twice though. Hmm... I did... And here's one for you!
Agree VP Im all for supporting but most charity shops are now run as a P&L business. Price savvy managers in charge to get the best price. It pushes people go elsewhere amazon etc.
I still find the Oxfam dedicated bookshops take the michael. They appear to look on the Internerd, find the second-highest price, and choose that. They've annoyed many secondhand sellers too: BBC NEWS | UK | Booksellers complain about Oxfam I think I'd blame the Internet as much as anything though, eBay's almost killed the carboot, & It's sort of crept up on me that there are almost no secondhand bookshops in Leicester left compared to a few years ago, While I agree about the oxfam Bookshops, I could not give a stuff for the wingeing poor second hand booksellers they are to expensive on a lot of bog standard books and in some cases bloody clueless to specific subjects and values.Having sold some books to two or three different sellers in the past and as recently as the last two weeks I know that the price they give me leaves them with twice or more the price they pay me mainly because I go back and look at the book I sold the guy and checkthe price.So why sell them I hear you cry! well for one, every now and then I have to thin out and make room and two I need the money and as much as I do my bit for charity in my house it most certeinly begins at home
on my travels this weekend came upon a charity shop (books only inside the front cover price £14 just looked on Amazon 99p plus 2.75p postage
myself and many other give our paperbacks to a local shop . who sell them [ or did ] for 10/20p .in aid of the local clinic.. but they are having to charge now for a decent condition paperback 50 p , because they were being snapped up by booksellers and sold on at greatly inflated prices at carboots and such ..,,,,greed overcomes charity ..
I have given loads of books to charity and never minded doing so, but you still get people moaning at car boots when you sell books at half the price of the charity shop
Loads of new (old) ones in Oxfam today, picked up Ken Smalls book about Op.Tiger disaster - opened it up when I got home, its been signed by the author as well, bonus! £1. Happy to pay as the moneys for charity. Pete.
