Surrealist art, economics & politics will all help Syrian refugees

THAME’S Oxfam Bookshop has a history of finding some very rare and valuable books amongst its donations. Shortly before Christmas, the shop sold a 1912 edition of Peter Pan, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, for the asking price of £300.

Image: For illustrative purposes only. These may not be the editions of VVV sold by Oxfam

Some more recent great finds include ‘VVV’, four wartime magazines on Surrealist art, bound into a book, which was sold through Oxfam’s internet site to a customer in Japan. A signed copy of Statecraft by Margaret Thatcher, was recently sold to a customer in the Thame shop and General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, a First Edition, by J.M.Keynes, was sold this via the internet site to a customer in the south of England, who purchased it for a birthday gift for their son who is studying, yes, you guessed, Economics!

The Oxfam Bookshop’s Manager, Dick Jennens, said: “These three sales have generated an amazing sum of money, over £1,600, for Oxfam to use for finding lasting solutions to poverty and suffering. This amount of income will be enormously helpful for our work with the refugees from the civil war in Syria.”

Oxfam is planning to help 400,000 refugees between January and the end of March 2014.