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Help 're-homing' books

Fluttermoth

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Anyone got any good ideas for 're-homing' a load of books?

My dad died recently, and my mum and me need some ideas of how to best redistribute his books. They're too specialist and there's too many of them for our second hand bookshops and neither of us can face selling them off one by one.

They're mostly military history (H.M.S Hood, Spitfires, Victoria Cross, Rorke's Drift) plus his other interests; Titanic mainly.

We don't want money for them, just to see them go to somewhere where they'll hsave a chance of being appreciated.
 
Try a small ad in Military Modelling magazine?
 
Oxfam bookshops (not the mixed trade) are good at pricing specialist books properly. They would go to a good cause.
 
Oxfam Books and Music
3/4 Tregenna Hill
ST IVES Cornwall TR26 1SE map
tel: 01736 798362
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Oxfam Bookshop
30 High Street
FALMOUTH Cornwall TR11 2AD map
tel: 01326 311390
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Oxfam Bookshop
52 Aylmer Square
ST AUSTELL Cornwall PL25 5LJ map
tel: 01726 66712
 
Thank you for your suggestions, peeps.

The only concern I have with going through Oxfam or shops is that most, if not all, the books have my dad's handwritten footnotes and corrections in (he was a stickler for accuracy and detail) and I know that's usually a no-no for second hand books.

Dad always said it should make the books worth more, bless him, but I don't think anyone else agrees :cry:
 
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