The Diary of a Bookseller

MONDAY, 26 MAY

Online orders: 6

Books found: 5

At 9.05 a.m. a customer came in trying to sell a box of books on Christian Science. He told me that a load of Christian Scientists had already picked over the collection and taken some of them for free. He was telling me this as he was trying to sell it to me. If a bunch of Christian Scientists didn’t want books on Christian Science for free, then I certainly was not going to pay for them, particularly when they were covered in cat hair.

Late in the day a customer, when asked if he’d like a bag, replied, ‘Desperately.’

Over the past few days about £400 worth of books from the railway book deal in Glasgow have sold. They probably account for half of all the books I have sold in the last week.

Till total £408.88

46 customers