Lady comes into the shop.
"I've just finished decorating my living room, and I have a shelf which needs some good looking leather books. Doesn't matter what they are, no-one is going to read them. Those would do."
"Those are £1,250 madam, it is a first eiditon complete works of Thackeray in tree calf and Baynton binding"
"That's a ridiculous amount, i am happy to pay a pound or two a book".
"Well we have no leather in that range madam. We have this Faux leather classics series at £3 each, would they be suitable".
"Oh I couldn't possibly have fake leather in my home. I'll have to get some ornaments instead"
And she swept out.
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Damn I wish I had £1,250 on me. I love the Yellowplush Papers and Vanity Fair, but I'd love to read some of his other stuff - in the original.
Clearly her own brain needs refurbishment... which may cost rather more than £1,250 methinks.
I do hope you're not doing badly in this recession. A tiny independent bookshop I always try to use here is dying on it's endpapers and it's horrible to watch. I hope you manage to come through it safely.
At the moment we are suffering pretty badly - but as much from the Oxfam Bookshop in the highstreet as the recession.
We are hold a book auction in May - so that should bring some income through (he says hopefully)
Ah well.
Hope the auction will help Mitch. It's hell living in interesting times... unless you're a greedy banker with your own pension...
I'm afraid we had one of these yesterday: wanted a set of big, inexpensive (yet expensive-looking) books to go on shelves in a basement - to act as insulation.
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