The Diary of a Bookseller

SATURDAY, 30 AUGUST

Online orders: 3

Books found: 3

Today we had our first AbeBooks order since June. They have clearly, finally, let us back on as sellers.

While Nicky was taking the mail bags to the post office, a customer found an 1876 edition of Daniel Deronda priced at £6.50 and brought it to the counter asking ‘How much could this be?’ I was sorely tempted to tell her that it ‘could be £7.50’. She didn’t even bother waiting for a reply, and went completely off-piste, saying ‘I found Venice terribly disappointing. It was full of tourists’, the perpetual complaint of the pretentious tourist.

I left Nicky in charge and drove to Glasgow airport with Anna, who’s going to visit her family in America.

Till total £211.86

29 customers