The Value of Bookshops

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[TerryRussell]

Today I went shopping for Mad Fred's Yuletide present. He'd asked Santa for some books.

While I was in town, I went to my favourite place, a second-hand book shop. Today I can back with Fred's presents plus:

• Admiralty Manual of Navigation Volume I (1928) Originally on H M Balby
• Admiralty Manual of Navigation Volume II (1973)
• Admiralty Manual of Navigation Volume III (1955) - Originally on HMS Grenville. These manuals contain a HUGE amount of information, from how to use a sextant or a rhumb line through chronometer error rates, precession and nutation, heeling error instruments, hour angle to types of fog. Between them they have several thousand pages of information, all as published by the Admiralty.
• Solent Creeks & Harbours, (Needles to Chichester). This book contains detailed maps of all of the creeks, harbour in the Solent, with detailed maps, photos and descriptions.
• Costal Ships & Ferries. This book is full of colour pictures and technical specifications of virtually every vessel that passes through the Solent. 224 pages of data.

So, how much did this lot cost? £25 the lot.

[saltydog]

So you had to haggle, did you..? 
That bookstore is going out of business at those prices..  

[TerryRussell]

No haggling. This is Engand. We don't do that! 

They've been going for a long time. I buy several thousand pounds worth of books from them each year. (my wife and I read a lot and have a very large library).

[IRI5HJ4CK]

Might take a look at those second hand book shops myself

Nice prices!

Jack.

[TerryRussell]

we've picked up some very valuable books over the years. My wife now has three books from the original US Library of Congress. Two of them were bought in bookshops in the UK and one in New Jersey. They must be valuable almost beyond price.

I suspect that these are almost as good as finding a copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Books are vauable things, indeed.

[IRI5HJ4CK]

I've got lots of old things around the house, I also have an old manual on lifeboat safety, issued in 1914, or around that year anyway. I'll try and find it now.

Jack

[maritiem]

I've also borrowed a book from the library about the rules on sea and how you have to manouvre your ship through shallow waters etc... it's hard to find those books here so I hope that I may buy the book from the library, since nobody else is interesed in ships.
It could be usefull for me in the future.


maritiem

[Agent|Austin]

Lucky you, I can't even buy 2 magazines for less then $30... Sucky economy....

Anyway interesting books, you should send um to me when your done.

[maritiem]

Lucky you, I can't even buy 2 magazines for less then $30... Sucky economy....

Anyway interesting books, you should send um to me when your done.

what kind of magazines are you talking about? because here in the shops they don't have anything about ships.  only about those small yachts, and the magazines I would like to read are about big cargo ships.


maritiem

[Agent|Austin]

what kind of magazines are you talking about? because here in the shops they don't have anything about ships.  only about those small yachts, and the magazines I would like to read are about big cargo ships.


maritiem

I had a year long subscription to Yachts International, that one was cheep they had some big yachts.

But I went and bought 3 photography magazines, they cost me over $50.

One of them was $28, but it was pretty big. The others were about $10-$15.

[Gloat]

I just noticed that my house was antique.. I have a leaflet about SOS Titanic, an old movie shortly after the actually disaster

[RMS Gigantic]

I just noticed that my house was antique.. I have a leaflet about SOS Titanic, an old movie shortly after the actually disaster

there were 2 movies about Titanic mad THE YEAR it sank!

[firestar12]

there were 2 movies about Titanic mad THE YEAR it sank!

What were they?

[RMS Gigantic]

"Saved from the Titanic" and "In Nacht und Eis"

[firestar12]

"Saved from the Titanic" and "In Nacht und Eis"

lol. The boat in In Nacht und Eis looks NOTHING like Titanic.

[TerryRussell]

The value of bookshops, not cinemas...

[CaptainMike1]

Today I went shopping for Mad Fred's Yuletide present. He'd asked Santa for some books.

While I was in town, I went to my favourite place, a second-hand book shop. Today I can back with Fred's presents plus:

• Admiralty Manual of Navigation Volume I (1928) Originally on H M Balby
• Admiralty Manual of Navigation Volume II (1973)
• Admiralty Manual of Navigation Volume III (1955) - Originally on HMS Grenville. These manuals contain a HUGE amount of information, from how to use a sextant or a rhumb line through chronometer error rates, precession and nutation, heeling error instruments, hour angle to types of fog. Between them they have several thousand pages of information, all as published by the Admiralty.
• Solent Creeks & Harbours, (Needles to Chichester). This book contains detailed maps of all of the creeks, harbour in the Solent, with detailed maps, photos and descriptions.
• Costal Ships & Ferries. This book is full of colour pictures and technical specifications of virtually every vessel that passes through the Solent. 224 pages of data.

So, how much did this lot cost? £25 the lot.

The credit crunch obviously hasn't hit Selsey yet!! £25 that's a quarter of the OAP!!!