Monday, 18 August 2008
Saturday, 16 August 2008
GERMAN LANGUAGE BOOKS STALINGRAD/FLAK PANZER'S
A BRACE OF INTERESTING BOOKS JUST LANDED HERE SO ITHOUGHT I WOULD MENTION THEM...THE FIRST BING A QUALITY VOLUME DETAILING THE EVOLUTUION OF THEWEHRMACHT'S ANTI AIRCRAFT TRACKED VEHICLES..WRITTEN BY A SURVIVING SERVING MEMBER F THE WEHERMACHTS PANZERWAFFE,THE BOOK S A VISUAL DELIGHT WITH MANY PREV UNPUBLISHED IMAGES OF GERMAN FLAK TRACKED AND SEMI TRACKED VEHICLES...
THE SECOND IS AN ACCOUNT OF TH E HORRIFIC BATTLE OF STALINGRAD AGAIN CRAMED WITH RARE PHOTOS AND NEW INSIGHTS INTO THIS STRUGGLE...
PERFECT FOR THE GERMAN SPEAKING ENTHUSIAST AND HISTORIAN...
OK,AM SHATTERED TO THATS IT...
THE SECOND IS AN ACCOUNT OF TH E HORRIFIC BATTLE OF STALINGRAD AGAIN CRAMED WITH RARE PHOTOS AND NEW INSIGHTS INTO THIS STRUGGLE...
PERFECT FOR THE GERMAN SPEAKING ENTHUSIAST AND HISTORIAN...
OK,AM SHATTERED TO THATS IT...
Friday, 15 August 2008
MOTORBIKE/MILITARY/SHIPWRECKS/CANALS/GUNS BOOKS LISTED..
HI THERE AND HELLO FROM THE BOOKLOVEUK HQ..NOW LISTED ALL MANNER OF NEW BOOKS..INCLUDING A HANDFUL OF RARE MOTORBIKE VOLUMES INCLUDING OSPREY COLLECTORS EDITIONS ON SUZUKI'S NORTON RESTORATION AND MILITARY MOTORBIKES, SOME NICE OSPREY BRITISH CAR OF THE 50'S AND 60'S VOLUMES A CLUTCH OF NAPOLEONIC LIBRARY BOOKS,SEVERAL SHIPWRECK BOOKS AND ALL MANNER OF MILITARY BOOKS,INCLUDING THIRD REICH WEAPONS,SHOTGUNS AND SHOOTING...
EXPECTING SOME COMMITED INTEREST WITH THESE LISTINGS(AND COULD DO WITH IT TOO)
SO DO BROWSE OUR SITE FOR FURTHER DETAILS...
ONE DRAWBACK OF MAIL ORDER SELLING IS THE NUMEROUS PROBLEMS WITH ROYAL MAIL AND THEIR PROPENSITY FOR LOSING,DAMAGING AND DELAYING DELIVERY OF OUR PACKETS ....WE POST ALL OUR SALES RECORDED DELIVERY..AND STILL THEY SEEM TO SCREW UP WITH REGULARITY....WHICH REMINDS ME WHILT I AM MORE THAN HAPPY TO TRY TO HELP WITH ANY PROBLEMS IN THIS FIELD..IT SEEMS SOME CUSTOMERS HAVE IN TH EPAST EXPECTED ME TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROBLEMS..SO THINKING IT OVER IT IS WORTH POINTING OUT THAT WE PAY ROYAL MAIL FOR A SERVICE AND IF THEY MESS UP THEN IT IS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO SORT OUT NOT OURS..
IN CASE THIS SOUNDS HARSH PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT IF A PACKET IS DELAYED OR FOUND TO BE DAMAGED I WILL AND DO ASSIST IN EVERY WAY TO GET THE MATTER RESOLVED..AND GIVEN THE STAFF OF ROYAL MAILS CLUMSINESS AND IN SOME CASES SPITE (IN MY OPINION) I TRY TO WRAP BOOKS AS WELL AS POSS....
OK..WHERE WERE WE?....AH YES STOCK....WELL ALL OF OUR LATEST BUYS ARE NOW LISTED,THE NAPOLEONIC AND MODELLING BOOKS SEEM TO BE GETTING SOME ATTENTION..
ITS STILL A LITTLE EARLY TO KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITHTHE MOTORBIKE BOOKS THOUGH I FOUND SOME OF THEM ON GOOGLE BOOKSEARCH AT OVER £100.00 OUR RESERVE BEING A FRACTION OF THAT...SO HOPEFULLY WE WILL SEE A HOST OF BIDS IN DUE COURSE...
SO THATS US FOR NOW,TILL SOON,...
OH YES ONE LAST THING...IT IS SUPER TO SEE OUR FEEDBACK NOW OVER 900...A REAL BIG AND SINCERE THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO BOUGHT FROM US..YOUR CUSTOM AND KIND COMMENTS ARE APPRECIATED..
EXPECTING SOME COMMITED INTEREST WITH THESE LISTINGS(AND COULD DO WITH IT TOO)
SO DO BROWSE OUR SITE FOR FURTHER DETAILS...
ONE DRAWBACK OF MAIL ORDER SELLING IS THE NUMEROUS PROBLEMS WITH ROYAL MAIL AND THEIR PROPENSITY FOR LOSING,DAMAGING AND DELAYING DELIVERY OF OUR PACKETS ....WE POST ALL OUR SALES RECORDED DELIVERY..AND STILL THEY SEEM TO SCREW UP WITH REGULARITY....WHICH REMINDS ME WHILT I AM MORE THAN HAPPY TO TRY TO HELP WITH ANY PROBLEMS IN THIS FIELD..IT SEEMS SOME CUSTOMERS HAVE IN TH EPAST EXPECTED ME TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROBLEMS..SO THINKING IT OVER IT IS WORTH POINTING OUT THAT WE PAY ROYAL MAIL FOR A SERVICE AND IF THEY MESS UP THEN IT IS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO SORT OUT NOT OURS..
IN CASE THIS SOUNDS HARSH PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT IF A PACKET IS DELAYED OR FOUND TO BE DAMAGED I WILL AND DO ASSIST IN EVERY WAY TO GET THE MATTER RESOLVED..AND GIVEN THE STAFF OF ROYAL MAILS CLUMSINESS AND IN SOME CASES SPITE (IN MY OPINION) I TRY TO WRAP BOOKS AS WELL AS POSS....
OK..WHERE WERE WE?....AH YES STOCK....WELL ALL OF OUR LATEST BUYS ARE NOW LISTED,THE NAPOLEONIC AND MODELLING BOOKS SEEM TO BE GETTING SOME ATTENTION..
ITS STILL A LITTLE EARLY TO KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITHTHE MOTORBIKE BOOKS THOUGH I FOUND SOME OF THEM ON GOOGLE BOOKSEARCH AT OVER £100.00 OUR RESERVE BEING A FRACTION OF THAT...SO HOPEFULLY WE WILL SEE A HOST OF BIDS IN DUE COURSE...
SO THATS US FOR NOW,TILL SOON,...
OH YES ONE LAST THING...IT IS SUPER TO SEE OUR FEEDBACK NOW OVER 900...A REAL BIG AND SINCERE THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO BOUGHT FROM US..YOUR CUSTOM AND KIND COMMENTS ARE APPRECIATED..
Monday, 11 August 2008
walking the boy!..in love with books..
the boy being of course my adorable toddler son marcus oliver who despite driving me half insane most days is one of the best things that ever happened to me...
he is watching 'pingu' right now so a few words before we have to get busy and go to the shops....
why books? well all my life i have loved very little more than to couch up with a book and lose myself in another world....
the saddest aspect of book selling is that one now tends to see a book for its market price rather than any intrinsic value....tho' some of my greatest books are scruffy bashed up soft backs and mean nothing in the collectors mkt..
conversly it amazes me that a book with to me no redeeming features what soever will be avidly sought and command high prices...
hers a good one over the years i have been asked a trilion times 'it only cost £2.75..when it was new why are you asking £15.00 /9.50 /25.00 for it..?
well hard to explain why to most folk...when you try to they stalk off hissing 'what a rip off i'm not paying that,cheeky sod' et al.....
so how do you explain the second hand value of a book?
you can try the 'think harry potter syndrome...you can point out that much as your house has risen in price since 1974 or so as will a scarce book
or you can clip the dust wrapper so the original price is not shown heresy i know but in some cases its the only way.....
so ...is anyone reading this?...well i hope so....would any one care to shower the author and his son with used £20 notes?..no didnt think so...which reminds me..as this economic mess the country is in stiffens and life gets tighter any one with a 'luxury ' vocation like book selling is going to suffer big time we certainly are a year or two back customers would happily spend on a regular basis and carry on building their collections..now it not quite as simple,customers are both thin on the ground and more cautious,naturally this is their perogative and so it goes however it is making book selling an endangered occupation as very few people consider books an essencial part of their life and budget and as money becomes scarce and jobs are vanishing credit is vanishing then so we suffer.....maybe i should have stayed down on the farm...so long and best to all....
he is watching 'pingu' right now so a few words before we have to get busy and go to the shops....
why books? well all my life i have loved very little more than to couch up with a book and lose myself in another world....
the saddest aspect of book selling is that one now tends to see a book for its market price rather than any intrinsic value....tho' some of my greatest books are scruffy bashed up soft backs and mean nothing in the collectors mkt..
conversly it amazes me that a book with to me no redeeming features what soever will be avidly sought and command high prices...
hers a good one over the years i have been asked a trilion times 'it only cost £2.75..when it was new why are you asking £15.00 /9.50 /25.00 for it..?
well hard to explain why to most folk...when you try to they stalk off hissing 'what a rip off i'm not paying that,cheeky sod' et al.....
so how do you explain the second hand value of a book?
you can try the 'think harry potter syndrome...you can point out that much as your house has risen in price since 1974 or so as will a scarce book
or you can clip the dust wrapper so the original price is not shown heresy i know but in some cases its the only way.....
so ...is anyone reading this?...well i hope so....would any one care to shower the author and his son with used £20 notes?..no didnt think so...which reminds me..as this economic mess the country is in stiffens and life gets tighter any one with a 'luxury ' vocation like book selling is going to suffer big time we certainly are a year or two back customers would happily spend on a regular basis and carry on building their collections..now it not quite as simple,customers are both thin on the ground and more cautious,naturally this is their perogative and so it goes however it is making book selling an endangered occupation as very few people consider books an essencial part of their life and budget and as money becomes scarce and jobs are vanishing credit is vanishing then so we suffer.....maybe i should have stayed down on the farm...so long and best to all....
Saturday, 9 August 2008
INCOMES THE AUTUMN..LETS READ!!
LONG COLD NIGHTS ON THE WAY SO ITS HIGH TIME TO ACCRUE A FEW BOOKS TO ENJOY IN THE WINTER...WHY NOT BROWSE OUR STOCK FOR SOME INTERESTING AND VARIED NON FICTION VOLUME S FOR YOUR SHELVES...AS STATED WE BOUGHT A SMALL BUT GOOD COLLECTION OF NAPOLEONIC WORKS WHICH ARE STARTING TO APPEAR ON OUR LISTINGS..LOTS MORE TO GO INCLUDING GREENHILL FACSIMILIE EDITIONS OF ORIGINAL NAPOLEONIC WORKS..
ITS GOOD TO SEE THE BLANDFORD COLOUR SERIES BOOKS GETTING SOME ATTENTION..THEY ARE A JOY YO HAVE AND BROWSE,FAR SUPERIOR TO OBSERVER'S BOOKS IN MY OPINION...
MORE BOOKS WANTED....STILL VERY KEEN TO PURCHASE SOME MORE STOCK..GET IN TOUCH IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE WHAT WE NEED..
OK,TIME TO DO SOME LISTINGS..LATERS...
ITS GOOD TO SEE THE BLANDFORD COLOUR SERIES BOOKS GETTING SOME ATTENTION..THEY ARE A JOY YO HAVE AND BROWSE,FAR SUPERIOR TO OBSERVER'S BOOKS IN MY OPINION...
MORE BOOKS WANTED....STILL VERY KEEN TO PURCHASE SOME MORE STOCK..GET IN TOUCH IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE WHAT WE NEED..
OK,TIME TO DO SOME LISTINGS..LATERS...
Friday, 8 August 2008
BOOKS INCOMING! NAPOLEONIC ....MODELLING...ET AL...
PHEW,JUST AS WE WRE PANICKING WE WERE OFFERED AND BOUGHT A NICE COLLECTION OF MAINLY MILITARY BOOKS,LOTS OF MODELLING VOLUMES OLD MAGAZINES ETC...BOOKS ON UNIFORMS AND WEAPONS WORLD WAR TWO GERMAN TANKS BLANDFORD COLOUR SERIES,ARGUS,ALMARK ETC...SHIPS,TANKS,AFV'S AND MOST OF THEM IN GOOD CONDITION...
AM BUSY LISTING THEM NOW SO AL ENTHUSIASTS KEEP AN EYE ON BOOKLOVEUK'S NEW EBAY LISTINGS!
ON A DIFFERENT NOTE,SAD TO SEE THE SUMMER IS CLOSING,DAYS GETTING SHORTER..SUN LOWER IN THE SKY ....WONT BE TOO LONG BEFORE TH ELEAVES ARE TURNING...
BOOKLOVEUK NOW ATTENDING AND DISPLAYING STOCK IN SKIPTON TOWN HALL AT THE COLLECTORS FAIRS ON FRIDAYS....ALSO IN BURNLEY MKT ON A WEDNESDAY..
THE ANTIQUE FAIR AT WILMSLOW IS NOW DROPPED DUE TO THE APATHY AND BAD ATTITUDE OF THE VISITOERS WHO SEEMED TO FEEL WE WRE A TRAVELLING REFERNCE LIBRARY TO CONSULT RATHER THAN BOOKSELLERS..AFTER WINCING ONCE TOO OFTEN AT THE RUDENESS AND CHEEK OF THE 'BROWSERS' WE DECIDED TO CHUCK IT IN AND CONCENTRATE MORE ON INTERNET SALES ...SHAME ON YOU WILMSLOW BUT BEAR IN MIND FOR THE FUTURE.. A BOOKSTALL IS NOT A PUBLIC LIBRARY OR REFERENCE FACILITY FOR YOUR ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES,NEITHER IS IT A PLACE TO DUMP YOUR PARTNER WHILST YOU GO AND GAZE AT SHINY THINGS!
AND MOST OF ALL WHEN A £15.00 OR SO OUT OF PRINT BOOK IS PRICED AT £6.50 OR LESS IT IS EXTREMLY BAD FORM TO WHINE AND REQUEST A FURTHER DISCOUNT!!
OK,VENOM DISCHARGED,,THANKS FOR READING MORE SOON BOOKLOVEUK..
AM BUSY LISTING THEM NOW SO AL ENTHUSIASTS KEEP AN EYE ON BOOKLOVEUK'S NEW EBAY LISTINGS!
ON A DIFFERENT NOTE,SAD TO SEE THE SUMMER IS CLOSING,DAYS GETTING SHORTER..SUN LOWER IN THE SKY ....WONT BE TOO LONG BEFORE TH ELEAVES ARE TURNING...
BOOKLOVEUK NOW ATTENDING AND DISPLAYING STOCK IN SKIPTON TOWN HALL AT THE COLLECTORS FAIRS ON FRIDAYS....ALSO IN BURNLEY MKT ON A WEDNESDAY..
THE ANTIQUE FAIR AT WILMSLOW IS NOW DROPPED DUE TO THE APATHY AND BAD ATTITUDE OF THE VISITOERS WHO SEEMED TO FEEL WE WRE A TRAVELLING REFERNCE LIBRARY TO CONSULT RATHER THAN BOOKSELLERS..AFTER WINCING ONCE TOO OFTEN AT THE RUDENESS AND CHEEK OF THE 'BROWSERS' WE DECIDED TO CHUCK IT IN AND CONCENTRATE MORE ON INTERNET SALES ...SHAME ON YOU WILMSLOW BUT BEAR IN MIND FOR THE FUTURE.. A BOOKSTALL IS NOT A PUBLIC LIBRARY OR REFERENCE FACILITY FOR YOUR ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES,NEITHER IS IT A PLACE TO DUMP YOUR PARTNER WHILST YOU GO AND GAZE AT SHINY THINGS!
AND MOST OF ALL WHEN A £15.00 OR SO OUT OF PRINT BOOK IS PRICED AT £6.50 OR LESS IT IS EXTREMLY BAD FORM TO WHINE AND REQUEST A FURTHER DISCOUNT!!
OK,VENOM DISCHARGED,,THANKS FOR READING MORE SOON BOOKLOVEUK..
Monday, 4 August 2008
book collections wanted...
still sulking about the lack of good stock..any one out there like to turn their book collection into cash...do get in touch...offering a few goodies of late....foden company history...a bladerunner film guide...a brace of good military uniform books.a peggy somerville monograph...an erte monograph...but need more....
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