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And yet more books
Sep. 11th, 2004 10:21 pmBoxes of them - lots going to the skip. It'd break your heart - except for the box of old school books, which only belonged in the skip. We were lucky on the kids' books, as there was enough room to get all our good books visible, but the adult books were stacked under the tables a couple deep, and lots never saw the light of day. I rescued a couple of boxes and brought them home - including a Maeve Binchy (non-fiction) I offered as an RABCK, and found out immediately afterwards was signed. Pretty cool.
My favourite moment was a little later on in the day, when the fair should have been over, books were going very, very cheaply indeed, and I'd moved down to cover some adult tables. There were two young guys looking around - very much the aiming for hippy-style, and one found a really battered old book of Yugoslavian phrases (one of the kinds of books you'd think you'd never get rid of). He brought it to me and said 'this is marked 30p but I figure with inflation it's probably worth 40 now'. So I told him he could have it free and he said 'Awwww, sweet!'
My favourite moment was a little later on in the day, when the fair should have been over, books were going very, very cheaply indeed, and I'd moved down to cover some adult tables. There were two young guys looking around - very much the aiming for hippy-style, and one found a really battered old book of Yugoslavian phrases (one of the kinds of books you'd think you'd never get rid of). He brought it to me and said 'this is marked 30p but I figure with inflation it's probably worth 40 now'. So I told him he could have it free and he said 'Awwww, sweet!'
