SO many books! (Hopefully)

[lady_schrapnell]

Just sticking the inside cover pic from my childhood copy of The Water Babies randomly here, as we now have a working printer with scanner again. Yay.

Anyway, longish-time readers will know I run the children's bookstall at my church fête, and it's that time of year again. I'll be sorting every night this week and it's on Saturday. Books for Dorian a given (though anything I might not be expecting, let me know), hard-cover Chalet School books for fjm, but if anyone would like me to look out for books, please let me know! Children's books (especially OOP or older ones) the most likely, but I usually spend some time sorting the other books, and occasionally get a few minutes to browse the other side of the room before we start.

I'm not just joking about the so many books, either...

Comments

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

Well, Dorian taught me well so I grab anything of the sort automatically! (I think the pickings will be slimmer this year since everyone heard of my amazing €80 for one CS book from the dealer, but hopefully we'll get some good stuff still.)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I've heard about Chalet School for years, but never actually seen one. I think it's most likely I'll have to wait until I can travel some day, and sit in someone's library to read 'em. Like angela forests, they just don't go out into the wild and nobody seems to want to reprint them.

[dorianegray.livejournal.com]

Check out Girls Gone By Publishing. They have been busily reprinting Chalet School books for the last few years. Many of their editions are out of print already, but can still be picked up second-hand.

Also, I have a few paperbacks that I have replaced with hardbacks; if you want, I could send them to you. (The paperbacks were cut, which is why I am replacing them with hardbacks or GGBP editions, but the main stories are still there.)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

My problem here is that I am stuck in the pimple of the universe, AKA Southern California. *g*

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

If some pb CSs don't turn up at the fete I'll be well surprised, but between us we'll get them for half nothing (there or charity shops) and I can pop them over to you. Girls Gone By copies I can almost guarantee will NOT turn up. Like - um - the company that redid all the Beany Malone books. People bought them who weren't able/willing to pay $100 or so for ABE/eBay copies, but then don't get rid of them!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Do not go to any expense on my behalf! Especially since I am so far in the red zone that even after (if, and it's unfortunately a big if right now) employment happens in September it's gonna be debtpaying for a long while. Blegh. Thats why I say maybe I ought to wait until I get to visit someone who owns these books. (they were long ago cleared out of libraries here--if they were even in them. The last school stories were cleared out in the mid sixties, and despite the Rowlings success, no one seems to be hep to the origins of the school story, only the magic story.)

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

No expense - don't worry! Older PBs at the fete go for about 10 cent each ('and cheaper the more you buy' - getting in practice with my line) at the beginning of the day - at the end we'll give them away free. And don't forget my handy-dandy US friend who's over atm and will be over again shortly, who'll gladly take books back with him to post from the States.

Also, I often find a few Angela Brazils, and Dorian doesn't much like her, so no competition on those. As/more relevant to the school story development, so interesting from that perspective.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I think I only have one or two Angela Brazil's--her first.

This is great--thanks!

[dorianegray.livejournal.com]

You can order from GGBP online. If you don't want to shell out for something random, I'm happy to send you my spare paperbacks. (And if you get hooked, I can recommend an online second-hand book dealer who carries lots of CS at reasonable prices.)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I am marking this for when I am employed again. Thank you.