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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 413967, member: 5833"]Yours would have enormous appeal to an interior decorator to the wealthy. In a hospital charity shop, long, long ago, because I had little money on me that day, I was going to buy just one of a set of nine Complete Works of Alexander Pope, with the idea of coming back for the others another day. The friendly woman minding the shop warned me that if I did not take them then, an interior decorator would grab them. Didn't want them broken up that way, so handed over my $5 bill, got my 50 cents change, and took my books, all 9 of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Calfskin bound from 1766.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 413967, member: 5833"]Yours would have enormous appeal to an interior decorator to the wealthy. In a hospital charity shop, long, long ago, because I had little money on me that day, I was going to buy just one of a set of nine Complete Works of Alexander Pope, with the idea of coming back for the others another day. The friendly woman minding the shop warned me that if I did not take them then, an interior decorator would grab them. Didn't want them broken up that way, so handed over my $5 bill, got my 50 cents change, and took my books, all 9 of them. Edit: Calfskin bound from 1766.[/QUOTE]
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