History of the English Speaking Peoples

[agilejess]

New Home for History of the English Speaking Peoples Set

VT: It's been many years since this post so you likely no longer have this set of books. But, if you still have them, consider sending them to me. I will pay postage to the US.
My husband is an avid fan of Churchill's way of writing and has read many of his wartime books. We have been looking for this particular set that contains additional maps and other material not included in other versions.
We haven't been able to find it for sale anywhere. If it's gone, please let me know if you have any idea where it is sold.
Thank you.

[PAXboy]

When my father died in 2001, I had no takers for his aircraft books. My father had been serving RAF in WWII and had a fair collection. I got a specialist in aviation books and he cherry picked a dozen, no more.

My mother died about five years ago and her books were more obscure and, again, charity shops not much interested as they were overflowing with books. I am now downsizing and expect problems in finding homes for the books I have not read in decades and won't read again. I want to deal with this, rather than leaving it to my family when I go West.

example: I have a top quality copy of Swift, Silent, Superb and contacted the owner of 'VCtenderness'. No takers. If anyone wants to buy - PM me!

[Asturias56]

The answer is to set up your own bookshop - or do so on Ebay................ I quite fancy pottering around all day telling people I won't sell them a book

[Mike6567]

Abut ten years ago I visited a second-hand bookshop to collect a book I had bought from their online advert (I think it was abebooks).
The bookshop was stopping as a shop and continuing online only.
The owner told me for every 1000 books online they would have about one enquiry a day.(this was about ten years ago)
I often wonder what sort of living could be made entering details of 1000s of books online and then packing and posting ...

[India Four Two]

Originally Posted by agilejess

VT: It's been many years since this post so you likely no longer have this set of books.

agilejess,

victor tango died in December 2015. He was a friend of mine and if you'd like, I can make inquiries as to whether his books are still available.

PS victor tango and I, and several other PPRuNers, participated in Sailonline, an online yacht racing game. One of the annual races is a Christmas to Christmas race and Terry (victor tango) had registered for the 2015 race, but his yacht britvisc didn't start. We subsequently discovered that he had died:
https://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/572...ling+christmas

As a tribute to Terry, we organized a team to sail Terry's yacht in one last race:
https://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/572...cean-race.html

It was a lot of fun, sailing britvisc in shifts (we had team members all around the world, so night shifts were not required), as well as our own yachts. At the end of the race, the memorial fleet hove-to southeast of the New York finish line and then sailed in line astern behind britvisc to the finish. A very fitting tribute to a nice guy.

[PAXboy]

Thanks for telling us, India Four Two.
I once tried selling items on eBay and found the process tedious for very little reward. Mostly, items go to the local Hospice shop (I might need them one day!)