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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
This sounds like a cool job! Is it as cool as it sounds? I imagine you were purchasing original copies of collected works of Bill Shakespeare and what not. Or was it more buying the Double Digest of "Archie and Jughead".
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The gamut. 90 per cent bestselling paperbacks - which we typically had too many copies of already to buy. But you’d find some really cool stuff. Especially when someone brought in a bunch of old books from an estate or something. Like sci-fi pulp novels from the 50s and 60s. Out of print non-fiction books on esoteric subjects - a cookbook from the 1930s, a fly-fishing guide from the 50s, some hippie guru’s tract on diet and mediation - are the most valuable.
I did wind up with a leather-bound collected works of Shakespeare from the 1920s that I still have. One of the cool things about really old books is a lot of them have notations on the inset cover leaf, like “Valedictorian, Mrs O’Grady’s Grade 9 Class, St. Mary’s”. Reminds you books used to be prized as gifts.