No dust-jacket, but still worth a few pennies. Like the signed, first edition Siegfried Sassoon I found a few weeks ago, it was in a dusty plastic crate, surrounded by dog-eared paperbacks and worthless book club editions of forgotten novels.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
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Wow! So, how do you feel when you find something like this? Does your heart start thumping? Is it an adrenalin rush? Do you jump up and down, or emit a little squeal of delight? Enquiring minds want to know!
There are three stages:
1. Disbelief - would anyone really throw out a signed Evelyn Waugh?
2. Elation - I tend to punch the air and issue an expletive.
3. Loneliness - If I told any of my colleagues, they wouldn't have a clue what I was talking about.
Thank God for blogging - I can share these moments with people who understand.
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