Indie bookshops are often great places for book lovers to browse for hidden gems. Some gems, though, remain hidden for a pretty long time before anyone picks them up and gives them a home.
Broadhurst’s Bookshop, an independent bookshop in the English town of Southport, just sold such a gem after having kept it on their shelves for nearly 28 years.
The tweet announcing the sale currently has 134,000 likes.
I have just sold a book that we have had in stock since May 1991. We always knew its day would come.
— Broadhursts Bookshop (@BroadhurstBooks) November 17, 2018
It wasn’t exactly a current title that went off the shelf after nearly three decades. The book in question was a children’s book about the first Norman King of England, William the Conqueror.
A children’s biography of William the Conqueror
— Broadhursts Bookshop (@BroadhurstBooks) November 17, 2018
The bookseller was clearly very pleased when the title finally got picked up from the shelf.
So happy when they finally find a home!
— Broadhursts Bookshop (@BroadhurstBooks) November 17, 2018
The viral tweet from Broadhurst’s Bookshop inspired other booksellers to tweet about that one book in their store that lives there for years without being sold.
The Larger Moths of Warwickshire sounds like a hoot, though.
We had a book called ‘The Larger Moths of Warwickshire’ in stock for ten years. I was quite sad when someone bought it.
— Tamsin Rosewell
(@autumnrosewell) November 17, 2018
This one’s perhaps not such a surprise:
I worked at a bookshop that had a copy of Piers Morgan’s autobiography. I worked there 2 different times in 4 years, and we never sold it, even when it was reduced to 1p! It’s probably still there.
— Robs (@captainrobs) November 17, 2018
Never throw out a book, guys. Well, maybe that Piers Morgan one.
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