neat old stuff
Mar. 5th, 2009 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holliThe best part of my bookstore job is the ephemera.
See, there are a lot of books we can't easily sell online: books to old, too obscure, falling apart too much, not worth the effort to list. And I basically get first dibs on those. So things like battered old children's books, postcards and photos found tucked between pages, yearbooks, pamphlets-- mine mine mine. Today I brought home a 1920s typewriter manual and four yearbooks, from 1940, 1961, '66, '68. I found one on Friday from 1942, University of Arizona, that has amaaaazing pictures.
Also, my constantly-overstressed manager (who takes out her rarely-justified freakouts on the rest of us) is moving to Key Largo. So that's good.
See, there are a lot of books we can't easily sell online: books to old, too obscure, falling apart too much, not worth the effort to list. And I basically get first dibs on those. So things like battered old children's books, postcards and photos found tucked between pages, yearbooks, pamphlets-- mine mine mine. Today I brought home a 1920s typewriter manual and four yearbooks, from 1940, 1961, '66, '68. I found one on Friday from 1942, University of Arizona, that has amaaaazing pictures.
Also, my constantly-overstressed manager (who takes out her rarely-justified freakouts on the rest of us) is moving to Key Largo. So that's good.
