£45,000! I paid a lot less than that for my
house!
(admittedly 9 years ago).
Top tip, if that branch of Oxfam were aware of what they were selling, other places, including Oxfam are not, so you may get lucky one day. After all, davem found that India paper edition of LotR on Sheffield flea market for just £3, which was totally shocking. And a lot of branches of Oxfam regularly throw away books which they cannot sell within a couple of weeks (it's caused a bit of controversy amongst Sheffield's bibliophiles), so it might be worth rummaging in bins round the back of your local Oxfam!
I'm regularly to be found scruffing about in junk bins in shops, both charity and otherwise, market stalls, jumbles etc as it's not only nice Tolkien editions that have turned up from such places, and collectors can't always be choosers. Still, might find something to supplement my woeful pension one day.
