Birthday Bookshop Thanks Donors

AFTER selling almost a quarter of a million items in five years of trading, Thame’s Oxfam Bookshop is celebrating its fifth birthday on December 3.
Manager Dick Jennens, said: “Oxfam would like to say a big ‘thank you’ to all of our supporters, including donors who have given thousands of books, CDs, DVDs and videos, and given generously when there has been an emergency somewhere in the world.
“Thanks to our volunteers, past and present, who have given freely of their time to sort, price and sell thousands of donations. As a result of all this generosity, the Oxfam Bookshop has been able to pass to Oxfam a sum approaching half a million pounds. This will really help Oxfam to work with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering. Together we really can Make Poverty History.”

During the past five years, the oldest book they have sold was a Bible published in 1657 by the precursor of the OUP, and sold to the Bodlein library; the most valuable was a first edition of ‘Rebecca’ which sold for