Book Board Chat

So sorry to hear that things are not going too well Maureen. Prayers and good wishes to you. Is there anything you need that could be sent to you. I too live too far away to be of help but sure would if I could.
My sales for June would probably be ok if I chose to look at them but I had such problems with one buyer of the Franklin Library books I just want to forget about June. This guy emailed, called on the phone, and had me mail books to his buyers rather than to him. It was an endless month.
However, June is over and at the end of the month something good happened. I went to a sale because they advertised Barbies but they were all new so I bought none. They had bins of Hallmark Chirstmas ornaments so I spent about an hour picking out about 50 of them. I love Christmas ornaments and it was an air conditioned room so I was happy. When I went downstairs there was one small bookcase with one decent book- Drums with NC Wyeth illustrations. I saw nothing else but then spotted a carton and when I looked it there were about 8 Steven King books. I don't read or have an interest in SK. However, the books were is slipcases and some still had the original shrink wrap. I also found an authographed Jurassic Park. So the price was a dollar a book but she gave me my 12 book for ten dollars. When I got them home I looked up one SK and it was a first edition of The Gunslinger with dust jacket. I had no time to look at the rest as I was playing Bridge for the rest of the day. So when I cane home I took out my issues of Firsts on Stephen King and found that the slipcase ones were signed by SK and the illustrator and mine were that signed limited edition. I am not sure as to how to list them -auction style or buy it now but I will stury the prior sales. The point is: the thrill of the chase is just so much fun. I just wonder how did such valuable books wind up in a box where the people selling them neither knew nor cared what they had.