This, from the Telegraph today:
“Charity shop’s Dickens first edition sells for £4k
A rare first edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens has sold for more than £4,000 after it was handed into a charity shop and nearly recycled.
The copy of the 1843 novella was donated to Oxfam Books and Music in Stirling, in a carrier bag full of “tatty and tired” Victorian fiction last month.
Store manager Neil Paterson said he nearly ditched the entire bag into the recycling but stopped when he noticed one that looked older than the rest. He said his “heart skipped a beat”.
After being forecast to sell for between £600 and £800, it was sold by Edinburgh auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull yesterday for £4,284. Proceeds will go to the charity.”
How wonderful!
That shop would’ve had to sell an awful lot of jigsaws and handbags to make that kind of profit!
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