In our used books department downstairs they hae this regular guy who comes in to sell books. And once he just got a whole load of books from an auction where a storage space had been abandoned and the owner of the storage place took all the books to the auction. So they ended up at our store with some others books the seller wanted to get rid of. The buyer gave him a deal for the other books and took all the books from the storage space essentially for free since in they were dirty, some in pretty bad condition, and he had to go through them all, painstakingly cleaning each one, and then deciding what was sellable and what was trash. What blew my mind was that it was an immense religious collection of works and I never knew these books even existed. And I thought that that was a wonderful aspect to buying used books: you see works that you never even imagined existed; of course the buyer knows I like anything medieval and has started holding stuff for me, which can be dangerous, since I will usually buy it, but that's something completely different.
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Sun, Aug. 8th, 2004 11:32 am (UTC)