There is now a pile of 16 books by my bed, ‘rescued’ from the library. There were 2 more, but I have left the Delderfield & Jerome K Jerome in places where the finder may get some amusement from them. Others will meet the same fate when I am done with them
So far my total outlay is less than it would be for 1 new paperback
Half are books of poetry – obviously a massive clearance going on there
Others are old essays or memoirs: Virginia Woolf, Sydney Smith, GK Chesterton
Samuel Selvon’s Lonely Londoners which, I fear, may bring more tears than laughter on re-reading 40 years on
And – The Complete Works of Charles & Mary Lamb (1908 2 vol edition)
