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Notices:
● Jobs, employment opportunities in
second-hand and antiquarian book trade:
1.
We will be looking to take on a full-time assistant manager in
around April/May 2007. Duties: Day
to day running of the shop, cataloguing of books, processing and packing of
internet orders & management of International sorted postal
contracts. Good computer skills
required, knowledge of book trade an advantage but training will be
given. Initial 12 month contract at
either 30 or 37.5 hours per week.
Please contact us for further information.
2.
We would also like a trustworthy local person to work occasionally
on a casual basis, to cover for staff illness and holidays etc.
● Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine: We have large quantities in stock, please call for details.
● Wiltshire Record Society: We have large quantities in
stock, please call for details.
The small print - Our terms and
conditions of sale:
Cheques should be made
payable to ‘Dorset Rare Books’
All items are offered
subject to being unsold.
Any items found to be not as described may be returned to us for a refund,
providing we are notified in advance, with in a reasonable period from
receipt.
We accept payment by most major credit and debit cards (but not American
Express).
We can accept cheques/money orders in Sterling drawn on a UK bank.
We can only accept
foreign currency cheques for orders of over £200.
All items In
transit are fully insured with Lloyds
underwriters.
Items over £2000
in value will only be sent via a selected courier service
VAT is not due on any items exported
outside the European Union or to the Channel Islands, our VAT registration
number is: 723 3951 38
Books, unframed maps and sheet music do not attract VAT, but other items of
ephemera/manuscript material may attract VAT.
Any contract
arising from this website is made under British law.
Title to any goods does not transfer from the seller until payment is
received in full.
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To the Mrs Richards’s of
this world (of the Fawlty
Towers variety) -
please note that our staff have not yet attended
the training course on ‘How to Deal with Difficult Old Bags’.
This applies to the lady who ordered a copy of a book from us (the
only copy in the UK) and subsequently complained, as though it was the
worst thing that had ever happened to her, that one page had some pencil
annotation, which had escaped our cataloguer’s attention. We apologized for this, offered you a
full refund plus the return postage or a discount on the book, but
somehow all this was not enough – what more could we have done?
“What did you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House
perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping
majestically…!”
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