🎁 Charity shop customer hands in first edition of 'A Christmas Carol' in 'donation of a lifetime' 📙 The store manager of Oxfam Books and Music in Stirling said his 'heart skipped a beat' when he came across the book
The manager of a Scottish charity bookshop has hailed the “donation of a lifetime” after someone handed in a first edition ofNeil Paterson, the store manager of Oxfam Books and Music in Stirling, said his “heart skipped a beat” when he was sorting through a plastic bag and came across the book.
Written and published in 1843, the book that tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge has become one of the author’s most famous works and has never been out of print since. The copy donated to Oxfam is due to be sold in Edinburgh at the end of September after being verified as a genuine first edition by auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull.: “It was middle aged lady, with one half-full carrier bag of mainly very tatty, tired, mid to late Victorian fiction – unknown authors, completely forgotten authors.
“Most of them were actually falling apart. I very nearly put the entire batch into our recycling boxes. But I noticed that this one looked a little older than the bulk of them., my heart skipped a beat. I tried dating it by looking at the title page, and lo and behold it was 1843, which was the year it was published.”
Although the donor has the right to claim the book back if she gave it away by mistake, the store manager said he thought this was unlikely.
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