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Charity Shops and books
Oct. 25th, 2013 05:48 pm Been a good week at the hospice shop. I won't know the overall sales until Monday, but this week we've sold: £15 book on Trolleybuses, £8 book on Judge Dredd, £6 Tyneham (ghost village), £8 Lord of the Rings and the incoming donations include a wonderful set of the Illustrated London News from the 1960s with photo spreads of things like Churchill's funeral.
Also got a little book on railways that's over 150 years old and has only one original copy for sale on the web (amidst a large number of print on demand reprints), so I've stuck a large price tag on it and placed it in the window. It's an interesting little book with some good engineering details.
Of course, I'm now drowning in books to price as the depot responded rather enthusiastically to our request for more stock (until now, it's been like getting blood out of a stone, but they suddenly got madly enthusiastic). There's a good pile of military history in what they sent, so those are already out on the shelves, and most of the outdated travel books are in the pile to go to an Internet firm that pays about a penny a book.
I'm also working about two days a week (voluntary), which is rather more than I'd originally planned on, but we're a new shop and still very short of staff.
Also got a little book on railways that's over 150 years old and has only one original copy for sale on the web (amidst a large number of print on demand reprints), so I've stuck a large price tag on it and placed it in the window. It's an interesting little book with some good engineering details.
Of course, I'm now drowning in books to price as the depot responded rather enthusiastically to our request for more stock (until now, it's been like getting blood out of a stone, but they suddenly got madly enthusiastic). There's a good pile of military history in what they sent, so those are already out on the shelves, and most of the outdated travel books are in the pile to go to an Internet firm that pays about a penny a book.
I'm also working about two days a week (voluntary), which is rather more than I'd originally planned on, but we're a new shop and still very short of staff.
