Poets & Thieves Quality Secondhand Books Makes it Look Easy, Again

Perhaps you have found the book you've always been looking for here at Poets & Thieves - with the stock we have, it's really not all that surprising.

But imagine this staggeringly improbable sale: two bunny-hating, reindeer-loving Finnish girls on a working holiday walked in today and were quick to find not only The Return of the Bunny Suicides but Nainen (Kautta Vuosien - Mitä Jokaisen Naisen Tulee Tietää Itsestään) - a guide to gynecology for young Finnish females - in Finnish!

Here at Poets & Thieves, such serendipitous finds are commonplace, run of the mill. Everyday, a young pregnant lady holding a shitzu will come in and say, "do you have any post-modern literature set in Bangladesh in 1965 by a Sicilian author - not Italian, I'm looking specifically for Sicilian? It has to be between 234 and 236 pages long, and have been published by Faber and Faber." More often than not, we have the book.

This is what being a bookseller is all about.