No, my phone went off.
Right.
So yeah, it tells you there's a first edition copyright, 1993, and it will also tell you if there's anything important about it, okay?
For example, this one was reprinted in 1994.
If it's the only reprint that ever happened in 1994, that will add value to it.
Anything that's worth any value for that book, right, will be on that page.
Now, this is an antique copy.
Now, really, this should be like £10, but it's a bit rough, a bit rough around the edges.
Right.
So what's that?
Oh, somebody's outside.
Somebody's name and address.
So we'll let this one go for the price of a pack and a piece.
Special contents of this edition, 1969.
There we are.
It was a special one at the time, but obviously it hasn't weathered well, has it?
Now, some books look brand new and they're antique.
Where's the other one I found?
This one.
I found a set of these.
Okay.
Now, have a look at that book there.
See that book there?
The purpley one.
Now, that's been withdrawn from a library because there's an imperfection in it.
It's got a big stamp on the inside.
Now, some libraries are kind enough to tell us what the imperfection is.
Now, I add some... Oh, what was that?
I can never think of his name.
The celebrity chef that used to do the outdoors cooking, but he was always drunk.
An older one.
I found a couple of them in fish.
I had two books of him and halfway through the book, the pages were bound in upside down and I sold the two of them for £20 each in Blackwood because they're unusual copies, right?
So they might have only been 10 off that reel printed like that.
They stopped the reel and then they rebound the books, but they went out into circulation.
So it doesn't say on that one, but there is an error in this.
So obviously that would boost the price up.
So this one by here now, what I do, so this is why it takes so long because you've got to check every book.
It's the same with the records, but you know, I mean, and getting to know now, like Max Boyce, we know we get 20 quid for, you know, in Blackwood.
Not a problem.
Stick him in the window.
He flies out.
So we're getting this slowly.
You know, the old master's voice ones, we know we get under upon a record.
Easy, easy.
I mean, when we're on half price and they're 50 quid, they're gone.
So yeah, you'd look here.
First published.
This one, I bet this one.
Oh yeah.
So this one got a number down the bottom.
There's another one that's got a better number there that I saw.
It actually said number 19 off the print.
I think it said, I don't know.
It's about, I got about 10 of these books in the series and they all, some of them go longer numbers, the smaller the number.
So if it's got 001, that's worth more than one that's got 18 or one that's got 7986.
Yeah.
So the earlier the number, the better.
Usually if it's the first edition, like Peter bought a book, he bought it for 50p and he brought it up to me and he said, what do you think about 18 something?
Well, I looked at it.
I couldn't find it.
I could find modern day versions of it, but I couldn't find this particular book.
And I said to him, you know, because he said, would it be a first edition?
I said, yeah, but they wouldn't print it in there.
Because back in 1800s, they were more worried about dying with a plague.
The more they were about writing first edition in books or first print in books.
So I said it would be about two to £300.
Because it was a printed copy, like a, a roll stamp copy, like they used to do years ago.
No, not like this, like a really old fashioned.
Anyway, so I take it up the antique place, you know, see what they say.
Two quid they offered him.
Naughty, naughty.
So when I was after my lamp that is, I told him to check it out.
I told him to refuse the sale to her no matter what.
She keeps asking for my £300 lamp.
They're four, 450 to 500, an app online.
And it's a German lamp it is.
And she wants it for £50 or £75.
Well, she got up to £75 and we were like, check it out.
Yeah, so that's if you want to go through your books, because I know you're interested in it.
And like I said, we're not just selling you any old ten for pound rubbish.
We know what we're talking about when it comes to books.
I learned this through going to university, because obviously you've got to do a bibliography and you've got to reference your work.
So they say things like you can't have a book that's ten years out of date, a medical book out of ten years old because it's out of date, class is out of date.
Anything five years sometimes in medicine is five years out of date.
So if you reference a book, I don't know, Florence Nightingale's Tips and Tricks from 1934, you lose points over that because, you know, it's not a credible source unless you're doing a history, a degree, you know.
But in medicine you wouldn't get that.
But yeah, it is interesting, like, you know, and like the Mills and Boons and some of the books are like they're cheaper than what the prices they are on them.
But the reason that we've put them up is to pay for the nappies and because obviously they've appreciated with age.
So yeah, so like I said, those books down by there will be cleaned.
They need a wipe over.
And like I said, we've gone through quite a few of them now.
And if they're not, you know, these are the £3.50 ones.
So these are the crates we need to get gone, basically.
But they'd be half price as well, only half price sale.
So £1.75 they'll be, which is not bad to pay for a book.
I mean, look at this one, brand new.
Look at it, brand new.
RRP £12.99.
And you've been asked to pay £1.75 for it.
If you're into conspiracies, it's fab, like, isn't it?
Oh, this is a nice one.
I thought, oh, that might be, that might be a good one because it's about £17 to buy.
But no, it wasn't.
It was just a normal book.
It's funny, isn't it?
And like, I was going through the books and somebody had already priced them.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It doesn't matter who knows because we're doing a new concept with the books.
Oh, and I haven't done this in black, but this is new for Pontypool, saying how much, how many nappies you can actually get.
So I can get three packs of newborns, three and a half packs of newborns or one pack of bigger sizes.
Right.
So I thought that's a good idea.
And anything that is expensive, like say we bought £40 on something, we put out many packs of nappies, we'd care for it.
But the books do go to nappies.
But somebody had priced the books like this, right?
I don't know who it was.
It was like classic, like, don't know, out of price for toffee, like, right?
Oh, that book's thick.
So I'll put a fiver on it.
That book's a bit thinner.
So I'll put three quid on it.
And that book's really thin.
So I'll put 50p on it.
It's been done by size.
It was like they don't work like that.
You've got to look inside.
But like I said, we only know it because it's what we've learnt since we've started in it.
So thank you very much to everybody who buys our vintage books.
We do really appreciate it.
Thank you to all our customers that come in and don't price whinge and just get on with it.
We appreciate that too.
We got an hard enough job as it is.
This is why I come in.
This is why I don't write.
Staff, you do this.
Because can you imagine how much time this would take them?
Whereas having extra volunteers in, good volunteers in, to run the shops, having the managers in to run the shops means that it frees me up to come in and do this for them.
And then it's all sorted.
All they got to do is put the books out and read what's on the front of them and explain to customers why we are dearer than a second-hand book shop.
Well we're not dearer than other second-hand book shops, but we're dearer than charity shops.
You know, because obviously it goes to items that help the community which are dearer.
And so are these.
Now I tried to do a video earlier but it didn't take what's in the window as well.
Now I will be going, probably leave you, about nine because I got a collection to pick up.
Some more plant pots and things for the allotment and some books.
We had three bags of RAF books brought in yesterday.
I was like, oh my god, in the donation center.
But actually they're brilliant books.
They're gonna fly.
They will fly.
Anything like that.
But yes, I'm here now till about nine o'clock.
So if anybody wants to come over Pontypool to shop, you can.
You can't pay me till ten but that's fine because you can pay me online.
We'll do it that way, okay?
Because of the trading, trading, Sunday trading laws.
I'd have to check because sometimes it goes on the amount of staff or the square footage.
I can't remember.
Which means we could open 7-11 like the 7-11s do.
But I don't know.
I'd have to check that.
But yeah, what we'll do is just say pay me at ten.
Pay me Monday.
I don't care.
You know the deal.
You know where it goes.
And I got to remember to take Sarah's dresses with me.
And there was another t-shirt somebody else wanted.
So yes, there we are.
Doing well.
Doing well.
I got this couple by year now and then I got to go and get them out of the cupboards.
