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Post by seahorse on Feb 20, 2008 23:43:23 GMT 1
Am I the only who feels quilty about selling beloved books, am having a major clear out and already regeting it which books do you guys regret selling
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Post by Claire on Feb 21, 2008 0:09:38 GMT 1
I really feel the same. I even wrote about this in my blog a while back. Basically I sell the most expensive ones, unless they were presents. If I have 2 copies I will sell the nicest one and keep the tatty one! I suppose it comes with being a bookseller you have to keep selling nice books in order to pay the bills but would love to keep them. I sometimes envy the people that buy them off me! But now I have a sort of compulsion to sell anything that I know is valuable! ;D
Luckily my most beloved books are mainly the armada paperback ones I grew up with, which I wouldnt get a lot for if I sold them anyway.
The ones I really regret selling are some of the first editions with lovely jackets. I also had a lot of collins pony library edition hardbacks which I sold and kept the paperbacks but they dont look as good. I also had a load of caroline akrill books which were signed which I sold and regretted and the first editions of joanna cannans and patricia leitches...first edition of silver snaffles...the list is endless.
I sold a lot last year when I was going thru a very tight financial spot now house is sold will hopefully be able to buy them again.
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Post by kunuma on Feb 21, 2008 12:39:50 GMT 1
I just think that I have the 'collecting gene' I just couldn't part with some of mine - although to be honest they are mostly pretty 'well read looking'! My favourites are those with lovely line drawings in, which fit with the text, like the Caney ones in the early Jill books.
The only non horse book I feel the same about is Alison Uttley's Country Child. Aaah -nostalgia for the good old days!!!!LOL
I think it is a sort of replacement therapy in my case, the books and my horse models are a stand in for the collection of REAL horses I would have if I could!!
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Post by haffyfan on Feb 21, 2008 19:06:29 GMT 1
Basically I sell the most expensive ones, unless they were presents. If I have 2 copies I will sell the nicest one and keep the tatty one! Wish I could do this...I can't help keeping the best ones and flogging the tattier ones! I regreat selling Brumby Racer....then had to re buy and it cost me about 4 timesd as much as first one had! (Luckily still made a little profit) Since then I have only ever sold duplicates so no tears later. What I do regreat is not taking my books with me when I moved out as my wonderful mum recycled most of them...I salvaged some out of recycling bin but she had been doing it for weeks! This is what started me collecting again...along with finding a copy of 3 ponies and Shannon in a bookshop (I had always wanted but never had it).
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Post by exmoorfan on Feb 21, 2008 20:30:43 GMT 1
I tend to do what Claire does..Being older I don't have the need for 1st editions except to read the true unabridged version of a story. If I have duplicates I tend to sell the best ones and keep a tatty one to read again.. I do have an affection for a book i have had since childhood and think if I sell it that will be part of me gone.!!lol
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Post by seahorse on Feb 24, 2008 21:50:05 GMT 1
I have just sold three of my special books should be thrilled so why am I sitting here crying, they are going to lovely homes, silly I know but hunted for them so hard and so long that it almost seem over. Hope Arfa and JJ appreciate what mum is doing for them
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Post by Claire on Feb 24, 2008 22:07:01 GMT 1
Sorry you are upset seahorse. Here is something to cheer you up and give you a chuckle. Remember talking about mail order men on another thread...well I have found the catalogue! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by seahorse on Feb 24, 2008 22:12:34 GMT 1
for some reason dont want one any more ;D am still going to miss my books somone slap me, went to an aunts Ruby Wedding today while rumageing though books which I used to read in the spare room at nannys I found a libary copy of the outsider first edtion, is this good my nan insitsted I take it where does it come in the punch bowl series
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Post by garej on Feb 24, 2008 22:20:31 GMT 1
Sorry you are upset.
I got "Caroline Canters Home" but if it makes you any happier if for some reason I should sell it, then I will give you first refusal.
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Post by Claire on Feb 24, 2008 22:20:39 GMT 1
Its the ninth one in series. First editions of monica's books usually get a fair price if your thinking of selling it.
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Post by seahorse on Feb 24, 2008 22:54:21 GMT 1
its covered in libary stamps think it must be one my bad mum did not take back its also quite battered
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Post by exmoorfan on Feb 27, 2008 9:55:11 GMT 1
Hi Seahorse. I paid about £42 for a first of The outsider. Mine isn't a library but has a lot of page edge foxing. Does it have a DW,,? There are two more fiction Punchbowl ones after it.
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Post by seahorse on Feb 27, 2008 17:49:23 GMT 1
No dust jacket. its only the second I have, so wont read it for a while got the first one cant remember whats its called.
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Post by seahorse on Feb 27, 2008 17:51:05 GMT 1
Sorry you are upset. I got "Caroline Canters Home" but if it makes you any happier if for some reason I should sell it, then I will give you first refusal. Many thanks its flying to you now, please love it. ;D
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