Chap walks in. "I'm looking for a copy of George Bernard Shaw's "The Apple Cart - I don't suppose you've heard of it."
"Yes sir, I believe we have a copy in our plays section."
"Really, how marvellous - its out of print, and I've hunted high and low for it. How much is it"
"It's a first edition sir, from 1920, in a decent dust wrapper - it's £6"
"Oh no - I don't want to pay anything near that - do you have anything for a pound ?"
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Cor! Struth! £6 for a first edition George Bernard Shaw??!!! Surely it's worth more than that?
My mum had a tatty old Penguin copy lying around somewhere, but nothing like that!
Mitchell you are far too nice to the undeserving.
sadly, GBS is very out of favour these days.
obviously not six pound marvellous :-(....what a find, this blog, what a find...
certain people and money...aghhhhhhhhhhhhh
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