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August 28, 2006: British Oxfam Stores Described in Pennsylvania Newspaper
"This was a book lover's dream: According to its Web site, Oxfam is the largest retailer of secondhand books (including rare books and antiques) in Europe, selling some 11 million each year. In 2005, a 17th-century treatise on economics brought in some $30,000 at auction."
"Here I found unique titles such as "Recollections of a Westminster Antiquary" by Lawrence E. Tanner, keeper of the library muniments of Westminster Abbey, 1926-1966, for $7, and "Memoirs of a Victorian Cabinet Maker" by James Hopkinson, 1819-1894, discovered by his granddaughter in an old trunk in 1966 and published in 1968."
