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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jan 27, 2007 16:13:55 GMT
I had a right stroke of luck today! I went for a potter down Portobello Road this afternoon (for non-UK readers, it's a very popular market in west London, with many unusual stalls selling antiques as well as all the usual stuff) when I happened to pop into an Oxfam charity bookshop. To one side was a stack of 8 or so volumes of Pearson's Magazine, £40 the lot. So I had a look and found they were 1890s issues - heart quickening, I checked to see if the two volumes with WOTW were there, Jan-June 1897 and July-Dec 1897, and they were! Condition was excellent. Not owning a car to be able to cart off the lot, I wasn't bothered about buying the whole pile, so I asked the manager if she minded splitting them up as I only wanted the two. Seeing her hesitate I just said, "Look, I'll give you £40 for the two I want and anything you get for the rest will be a bonus," to which her immediate response was a delighted, "Okay!" Damn good thing it was payday yesterday...
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Post by Thunder Child on Jan 27, 2007 16:46:27 GMT
You are one lucky bastard ;D
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Post by Stewymartian on Jan 27, 2007 19:05:04 GMT
You must have had a case of the Red Dwarf luck virus there!
If you happen to think of 6 numbers between 1 and 49, please let us know...
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jan 27, 2007 22:09:46 GMT
If you happen to think of 6 numbers between 1 and 49, please let us know... I wish, I forgot to buy a lottery ticket, har har! ;D Still, I went on Bookfinder earlier, and Vols 3 and 4 of Pearson's 1897, i.e. the relevant ones, are being sold via AbeBooks - for £300! Ker-ching... |
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Post by Commandingtripod on Jan 28, 2007 0:07:41 GMT
Nice find and a real bargin.  |
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jan 28, 2007 15:24:24 GMT
There's more... I ended up going back to the shop today and bought the other 6 volumes (1896, 1898 and 1899) for £20 (yes, yes, I know, I should have just asked them to keep the others back for me yesterday, but £60 in total for all 8 is still a bargain).
Turns out Vol 2 (July-Dec 1896) has two Wells short stories - 'The Rajah's Treasure', which wasn't published again in a collection until 1984 and which I'd never heard of before, and 'In the Abyss' (ill. Warwick Goble)!
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Jan 28, 2007 17:56:24 GMT
You jammy swine.  |
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jan 28, 2007 21:32:35 GMT
Still forgot me lottery ticket though...
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Post by Rob on Jan 29, 2007 8:21:50 GMT
You lucky man! I was visiting friends in London on Saturday but we decided to visit Brick lane. If only I'd gone to Portobello!
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Post by the Donal on Jan 29, 2007 20:38:18 GMT
Nice work- well spotted you clever so and so.
Rob- I assume you went for a pigeon-korma whilst on Brick Lane?! ;D ;D
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Post by Rob on Jan 30, 2007 8:41:45 GMT
No, but I had a chicken burger at this BBQ place, which was nice, apart from this drunk guy who'd been on a 16 hour session decided he wanted to be my best mate, and wouldn't leave me alone.
It was mildly amusing.
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Post by the Donal on Jan 30, 2007 22:08:54 GMT
You were lucky- if in Kingston, that drunk guy would deafinitely NOT want to be your best mate!!
Yep- dodging dodgy restaurants in Brick Street seems like a good game to me...!
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Post by Rob on Jan 31, 2007 12:16:18 GMT
I lived in Kingston for a bit, I really liked it.
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Post by Stuuullaaa on Jan 31, 2007 13:42:54 GMT
You are one lucky bastard ;D Ha ha ha!!! Couldn't of put it better myself!! ;D |
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Post by Killraven on Jan 31, 2007 21:00:15 GMT
I lived in Kingston for a bit, I really liked it. Rob, you weren't on medication at the time were you!? ;D KR |
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Post by Rob on Jan 31, 2007 21:17:23 GMT
Maybe, I only lived there about a month. I HATED the course I was studying at Kingston University, so I moved back up to Manchester.
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Post by Killraven on Jan 31, 2007 21:34:41 GMT
I was offered a place at Kingston University to sit Geography. Quite glad I never went now! KR |
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Post by Rob on Jan 31, 2007 21:50:04 GMT
I did Graphic Design for abou 3 weeks. I liked the location but the course and the halls I lived in made me seriously depressed, took me a while to get over the whole thing.
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