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As well as ordering
and stocking new titles, we also buy and sell second-hand books.
If you have books
to sell, and live in our area, please contact
us.
We buy general
hardback non-fiction - history, travel, biography, some gardening and
cookery; we buy selected fiction; we try not to buy paperbacks; we do
not buy school textbooks or childrens' books. But please don't be surprised
if we try to sell them for more than the amount we pay you for them!
If you have a general
wants list, please contact
us.
Please try us if you
are searching for a specific title,
but you may wish to try also the following sites on the internet - abe.com
or ukbookword.com. These will give you access to a truly worldwide
database of dealers and their stock.
From
Fred Bason's Diary, 1930 - "I put it
down in black and white. It's true. I've just seen a catalogue of
moderns [first editions] and these are the titles and prices
asked.
Galsworthy (Sinjohn):
Villa Rubein - fairly good, £85; A Man of Property
- good (it should be!), £125; From the Four Winds -
fine, £65; Caravan - nice, £20; The Forsyte
Saga - v. nice, £35.
That's five novels costing about £2 (published price) and
today £330 is asked for them. And I'll lay six to four they
sell, for the catalogue is from a live bookman. Anyone paying £330
for these today, April 1930, is the biggest bloody fool in the world
and can lose £300 at least by 1950! This isn't an investment
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From
Love In A Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford - "A
glance at Burke or Debrett would be quite enough...but these large
volumes are not always available, while the books on the subject
by Lord Montdore's brother-in-law...are all out of print. His
great talent for snobbishness and small talent for literature
have produced three detailed studies of his wife's forebears,
but they can only be read now by asking a bookseller to get them
at second hand. (The bookseller will put an advertisement in his
trade paper The Clique, 'H. Dugdale, any by'. He will be
snowed under with copies at about a shilling each, and will then
proudly inform his customer that he has 'managed to find what
you want', implying hours of careful search on barrows, dirt cheap,
at 30s. the three.)"
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