FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q. How do you price your books?
A. Pricing second-hand books is never a precise art but we draw upon online information as to scarcity and demand for similar copies, combined with our own experience of running the bookshop. Ordinary hardbacks in good condition start around £5.00; paperbacks from our trolleys are £1.50.
Q. Do you take card payments?
A. Yes, including American Express. We have a lower transaction limit of £5.00.
Q. Is your stock listed online?
A. Some of it, yes. Our online stock is listed with abebooks.com under bookseller name BOOKSHOPHEATH. We offer a 10% discount to the current listed price for sales of online stock made in person in the Bookshop.
Q. Do you buy books?
A. Yes, subject to condition and current stock requirements.
Q. Do you offer book rebinding and repair?
A. Not directly but we can put you in touch with a recommended bookbinder.
Q. Is it possible to reserve books?
A. It is, yes. We are always happy to put something aside until you can make it into the shop; just give us a call, or an e-mail. We can usually out an item aside for a week without a deposit.
Q. Do you source books?
A. We can certainly try! If you have a particular item that you have been trying to find, we can do our best to find a copy within an agreed budget.
Q. Do you provide valuations?
A.. We provide informal indications of value in person in the shop, and can make arrangements for written valuations for insurance purposes.
Q. Do you undertake framing?
A. Not directly, but we can arrange framing, or suggest a number of local framers. We have an arrangement with a local framer that allows us to offer the ready-framed items in the shop at competitive prices.
Q. What gives a bookshop its distinctive smell?
A. You're right, second-hand bookshops do have a distinctive smell, and not just because they tend to be a bit dusty. Older books are often wholly or partly bound in leather, which may have been fed with leather cream; older books may use animal glues, and of course ageing paper and inks add further ingredients to the mix. Some of the chemical compounds in that mix are related to vanillin, which helps to create that distinctive, slightly sweet smell that greets you when you walk in.
A. Pricing second-hand books is never a precise art but we draw upon online information as to scarcity and demand for similar copies, combined with our own experience of running the bookshop. Ordinary hardbacks in good condition start around £5.00; paperbacks from our trolleys are £1.50.
Q. Do you take card payments?
A. Yes, including American Express. We have a lower transaction limit of £5.00.
Q. Is your stock listed online?
A. Some of it, yes. Our online stock is listed with abebooks.com under bookseller name BOOKSHOPHEATH. We offer a 10% discount to the current listed price for sales of online stock made in person in the Bookshop.
Q. Do you buy books?
A. Yes, subject to condition and current stock requirements.
Q. Do you offer book rebinding and repair?
A. Not directly but we can put you in touch with a recommended bookbinder.
Q. Is it possible to reserve books?
A. It is, yes. We are always happy to put something aside until you can make it into the shop; just give us a call, or an e-mail. We can usually out an item aside for a week without a deposit.
Q. Do you source books?
A. We can certainly try! If you have a particular item that you have been trying to find, we can do our best to find a copy within an agreed budget.
Q. Do you provide valuations?
A.. We provide informal indications of value in person in the shop, and can make arrangements for written valuations for insurance purposes.
Q. Do you undertake framing?
A. Not directly, but we can arrange framing, or suggest a number of local framers. We have an arrangement with a local framer that allows us to offer the ready-framed items in the shop at competitive prices.
Q. What gives a bookshop its distinctive smell?
A. You're right, second-hand bookshops do have a distinctive smell, and not just because they tend to be a bit dusty. Older books are often wholly or partly bound in leather, which may have been fed with leather cream; older books may use animal glues, and of course ageing paper and inks add further ingredients to the mix. Some of the chemical compounds in that mix are related to vanillin, which helps to create that distinctive, slightly sweet smell that greets you when you walk in.
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