Tuesday 9 September 2008

Reflections from the book trade

Something that most secondhand bookshops have traditionally had is a section of very cheap books, in these days when people seem to have forgotten the meaning of very cheap and many are now extremely hard up ours sometimes produces unusual reactions.

All the hardbacks in ours are 10p and all the paperbacks 5p each click here so see the pictures of it today

One of the more amusing bookselling incidents this week was pricing a copy of Flemish Drawings at Windsor Castle and noticing someone had crossed out the bookplate of Orson Wells (very tasteful copper plate Orson Wells on hand made paper) and written in a scrawl happy Christmas from Owen.

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