I'm in love with my Car (Books)

Vrooooooom! Vroooooooooooom!

(Any excuse for a quick ooogle of Roger Taylor...Lush...ahem, where was I? Ahh yes...)


Well as you can guess, this is motor related. Motorsport related to be a bit more precise. This pile of books is just teasing me as I love Grand Prix, (British GP Blog) fast cars, and this is what they are all about.

To start with we have books on recent years motorsport priced from £2 - £6 each.


These Antique Car Auction catalogs are full of amazing and beautiful (and expensive!) cars, and if anyone reading this can afford to buy a few, I will gladly take some off their hands ;)

£18 each. 


Fancy building your own racing machine? Well we have book that can tell you How To. 
Or how about reviews of the F2 year or F1 or Formula Renault...We have them too...£4 each.  


And finally, some books, in French, talking about Le Man and Monte Carlo and these are £6 each.

Don't forget ony 2 months to go till F1 starts up again! Hurrah!


Vroooom vroooom vrooooooooooom!


Bye for now
BG

Fantastic Ferrari

(or not as the case may be, as you know being an F1 fan we do not like Ferrari - moany whining team when they don't win, which is pretty much ALL the time now. Ha! The Red Bull team is almost as bad now, but I digress...)

As much as we are not fans of F1 Team, we can't say that Ferrari makes horrible cars.

In fact they are some of the prettiest cars about.

Emblazoned with the Prancing Horse, these cars are there to get your attention. (And go very fast! Vroooooooooom)
Based in Maranello, Italy, and started by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 they stared with racing cars and then produced street legal vehicles.
"Ferrari road cars are generally seen as a symbol of speed, luxury and wealth"

This book is a collection of photos of these mythical beast cars.
Limited Edition of 100 copies.
£40
"25 years of calendar images" by Gunther Raupp


Just look as those lush cars. I want one. A car, not a coffee table book such as this, as lovely as it is, it doesn't make the noise....

So of course I had to post an F1 vid, but this is purely for comedy value, not a Ferrari in sight. Oh deer.

Bye for now
BG

Summer Holidays!

The childern having finished school for 6 weeks (oh how I wish I could have 6 weeks off! Miss those times. Although I think I just said I was bored all the time when I was off back in the day. I feel old now...) keep them amused with this....

A lovely tricycle. Better than a scooter.
Cleaned up and it even has ribbons on the handlebars.
£20

It even has a handle so they can't escape your clutches, and a little holding space at the back.
They should make these adult size. We all want one!
Keep fit and look cool on a trike!

We also have lots of new childrens books from 50p each.
That will keep them quiet for a bit.

Finally, we have board games from £1 including Pictionary, Cluedo and the classic Monopoly, as well as some new SceneIt dvd games, priced at £5.

Bye for now
BG

100 year old books

I would love to own a 2nd hand antique bookshop one day. Although I wouldn't be able to sell any as I would want to keep them and touch them and smell them and look at them all the time. Actually I think I just want an old book Library!

This donation was fantastic from an interesting point of view.
3 HUGE bags of books, the 'newest' of which was from 1929.
The oldest was 1830, but sadly has fallen apart completely.

Some were first editions, others in French, some in German.
A smorgasbord of topics!

All of which we have researched and priced accordingly.
most are priced £2 - £4 but there are a few worth a lot more.

This one on Medieval Towns is £28 from 1906

We also have an Autoharp album £3, a book on Puritan England £4, and some French novellas £4 each.

Plus they look lovely with our 1950's and 60's and 70's novels (maybe we shall blog about those later!)

Bye for now
BG



Bookworm

If I could, I would ban Kindles. So they are super light, efficient, and you can carry a library around in your bag, but they are just dead. Books are organic and living to me.  Plus a good book is something we can sell in Brook Green. (Can't sell Kindles. Never had one donated. *sigh*)

Pretty much all fiction books are sold for £1.  Although super new ones and some hardback books are £2.

It's the non-fiction books which everyone comes in to see and what we mainly get donated.
History and Biography. Cooking and Gardening. Funny books. Health books. Maps, Travel books, and Language. You name it, we have probably had it.

Book on Wonder Woman - no, not me, the comic strip - sold yesterday for £10.

Asked for a book on how to fly fish, quick check and voila. We had one.

We also have some 1st Editions, which help us raise lots of money.

The most interesting types of books we have in are the older ones.
The oldest book we had in was from 1834 about gardens and garden design. We keep all the antique books together and I just look and imagine who read these before me. So do our customers. They love them!

Antique/Collectable books from £3

Plus if you are looking for out of print books, check us out (or any charity shop for that matter) as you might be lucky!

Someone was walking past at the right time and bought the Theatre/Noel Coward books and went away very happy. (I wasn't. They ruined my display....Only joking! It is there to be sold.) They said they had been after some of the books for years and now they come in every week to see what goodies we have in store.

We also get some funnies as you can see by this blog post here - Mirth and Laughter

A happy ending.
That's what you get in fairytale books and it's what I like at the end of the day.

Bye for now

BG

The Wonderful World of Prince Charles....

....or The Vatican Sex Manual (Or The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book) has been donated and oh it gave us all a laugh.

Eric Idle, best known from Monty Python, produced this book in 1976 and it is very funny.
(Plus it has picture on Eric NAKED(!!) in it. But it is not graphic and no, you don't get the see the pictures. I took photos of other pages....We are not a sex shop you know! haha)

Parodies a plenty and lots of funny pictures and cartoons, it was a spin off of the Rutland Weekend Television series. There are screen grabs and jokes as well as tv listings, which I would guess are not entirely factual!

No pages missing or torn and it is in rather good condition, but the spine is not perfect.
This funny, interesting book could be yours for £12.

Bye for now
BG