pslewis

You youngsters won't remember these, but these books were the smartphones back in the day - filled with knowledge and great for kids.

Well, just been in the attic and found a big box of them ..... they have been following me around since the 50's!

I'm just about to take them all to the charity shop but I seem to remember on the News a good few years ago that there was a market for some of these.

Anyone any idea what's what? I'm a tight Yorkshireman and I would hate for someone to buy them all for 10p each just to sell them on for £10 each, robbing the charity of some funds.

Turbohot

Try abe.com

Old site, but used to work for me well when I used to mint money for Oxfam via that. I think it's called abebooks now.

pslewis

Cheers

pslewis

Did I really, as a kid, read a book on Flags?! I sound like Sheldon from the Big Bang - isn't he interested in Flags of the world?

billyray911

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Good find-love 'The Policeman' book!

pslewis

There must be some mistake, surely?

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Bo...p%3Bsortby%3D1

SJ_Skyline

f1_fan

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Possibly as there's umpteen copies on Ebay for £5!

pslewis

True ..... but then if I look at others on EBay their price vary wildly .... take Gingers Adventures which I have here ..... depends of the date of print it would seem?

Most of mine are from the dark ages when the Beatles were known as The Quarrymen!!

Turbohot

PS, book's value is related not only to the fact that it's 50's but also the detailed condition (spine, cover, quality of pages etc), what edition it was (first editions fetch more money, obviously), signed by author etc. etc. You should be able to list your book on abe with all the plus points about your book, and sell it for 50 quid, if you like. I used to do it on behalf of Oxfam in early 2000's, and it worked for them. And yes, as f1 says, it it's not rare, then no wonder it's 'valued' as a .61p item on abe.

pslewis

£1:74 is the lowest price on abebooks it seems ....... over £4400 for the highest price for my Book of Flags.

I'm a bit sad that I threw them all through the attic hatch now - as they were all utterly mint before I did that

Turbohot

Well, I have a book called 'Little Black Sambo". I bought it for .20p in Islington library reject box in 1992. One rare, mint copy of it got sold for, I think, 10 grand; about 8 years ago. But as my book is quite shabby with stupid Islington Library reject stamp on it as well, it won't get me more than an tenner.

I don't want to part with it, anyway.

Maz

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Ladybird books. They bring back good memories. From fairy tales to Aesop's Fables, the fiction and non fiction titles were numerous. I loved reading them when I was young.

skoobidude

Can you post a picture up of your collection Pete?
I also read quite a few in my younger years.

Nick

Chip

Whats that about then?

Turbohot

The answer is in my sentence you quoted.

Hope this helps.

burt2000

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loved the ladybird books when i was a kid......if you have the town mouse and country mouse one with the cassette tape id gladly buy it off you!

Turbohot

I never read any Ladybird books as a child. I instead read modern Hind Pocket Books series, olden Panchtantra story books and things like that. Ladybird books were read by my children in the 90's. Those books were reproduced and mass-produced, and were sold at Woolworths for as little at £1.25p each for my children and alike, whereas my children's father and his siblings and parents would have read authentic Ladybird books in their childhood.


Regarding reading Western literature written in English in my littlehood, I started to flip through my father's Reader's Digest, National Geographic and Times out of mere curiosity. I've always liked glossy pictures. I also got given some children's literature of the West i.e. a load of old Wee Wisdom magazines by a converted South Indian Christian family friend Mrs. Titus, which I found very entertaining. I read Phantom comics in English with great joy as well (I bought them, and desperately waited for the next comic strip to come out in the paper). I collected the lot in hope that one day, he'd take his mask off. He eventually did, and that was a moment. I ended up getting a ring like his in my teenage; a ring with skeleton face on. I imagined leaving its marking on the baddies I encountered in my life, like he did. Not that I did.

I don't think Mrs. Titus realised that she had forgotten some Christmas cards that she received over the years from some missionary, in the pile of those Wee Wisdom magazines. Those cards were something magic to me! Seeing a reindeer sledge coming down a snowy hill, glittery frost and other winter scenes became such a mystery to me that I wanted those scenes to come alive! They did one day, but the spell has been long broken, and I know that the snow, to my disappointment, eventually melts. It's also very cold to touch, brrrrrrrrr.............I now also know that there's no old kind man in red with long white beard, nor does London have reindeer taxis in snowy winter.

Coming back to my hero Phantom , I always wanted a tree house like he had. But after my long term living in the West, I can't fathom how the hell he lived in such a ramshackle of a dwelling up there, in such freezing climate! I'll never fulfil that dream, even of you pay me! No way.

zip106

I remember my teaching back in the mid-70's reading us that book.

Probably not PC now though...

A couple of years ago I was trying to find the Pirate books I read as a kid, for my kids to read (Benjamin the Blue, Gregory the Green, Roderick the Red etc, and the Griffin) but couldn't find them for sale at reasonable prices.

£98!

Turbohot

Correct. Yet in metaphorical sense, it was more 'for' the 'victim' imo; not against. Anyway.

Good book.

Pirate stories have become a bit of a problem as well now; since Somalian pirates are kidnapping everyone in left, right and centre.

Aladin remains sacred for now, but we don't know how long for.

If you really want to read the pirate tales from that particular book to your children, you could get a used one for 14 quid, but the issue with a used one is that you wouldn't know where it has been, would you?

trails

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I was given the Edward Detmold illustrated Fables of Aesop with I was 9 by my grandparents...a wonderful book I still own 30 odd years later

Maz

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It was much the illustrations as the stories that were so alluring.

trails

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Yup, proper fine art...one of those books you receive as a kid you are always going to keep

pslewis

I threw a set of cassette tapes out in the bin ....... loads of storybook tapes ...... I didn't even think one went with the book.

Leslie

Can't think why you dont read them again Pete! You might learn something!

Les

pslewis

I have read them, Les ....... they take a few minutes each to complete.

Apart from the one titled, "Words of Wisdom by Leslie" ...... that took 2 seconds!!

Leslie

Its my innate ability to comment so accurately in so few words Pete.

Glad it was so helpful to you!

Les

Maz

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Touché!

burt2000

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have you got town mouse and country mouse? great memories of it from being a kid

Lisawrx

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If you think that's bad, I collected stamps.