eBay My World: jegs11( 1989)

I am Jonathan Gurr; nickname - jegs; eBay ID - jegs11. I have over 20 years experience in sourcing a variety of products and their subsequent mail-order sale. I like to find discarded stuff and ways of re-using it.

out-of-print rare and hard-to-find books, cookery books, angling books, coffe grinders, 'Stanley'-type utility lock-knife, backlist indie CDs, jazz-funk CDs

Cookery books, The Good Cook series by Time Life

English

books, skiing, fishing, cooking the catch, ebaying

Enter The Dragon, The Matrix

seventies soul & funk, eighties jazz-funk, seventies reggae

Scrubs, That 70s Show, Top Gear, QI, 3rd Rock from the sun, Little Britain, Catherine Tate Show, Have I got news for you?, Never mind the Buzzcocks, River Cottage, Grand Designs

My working background was in purchasing & export shipping, and later I got involved in importing computer software and cabling. Along the way I picked up a litle knowledge in using computers for leaflet & ad design, and now get to use a mixture of these skills, with my eBaying and other marketing.

PayPal preferred; 2nd preference = UK Postal Orders; or for items of £10 and under, just send me unused stamps to the value of the order (in any denominations) - which will save you the PO fee; I will also accept personal cheques.

Parents teach one to consume books, and I had so many books given to me as a boy that it would have been impossible over the years to have kept them all with me. Consequently, I developed (quite independently, I might add, to Book Crossing) my own 'read-&-release' plan for books. As my friends are aware, there are probably more than a few of my books on their shelves, and if I happen to be out and about, and finish reading a book, I often write a comment on the end-paper, and leave it behind me, whether it be on a train, or in a pub; wherever. I do hope that some pleasure has been gained by the finders, and that they may have caught the bug and begun releasing, if not their own books, then at least the book they found. I romantically imagine that once a book has tasted freedom, it would be hard for it to settle down to a dusty life on one shelf for the next twenty years... My collecting of cookery books began in 1985, on my quest for recipes for freshwater fish.

'Critical Mess' was achieved in July 2002 when I took on the selling of my late father's computer books, as well as attempting to pack books to move to a smaller flat. Having gleaned all I wanted from hundreds of cookbooks, I decided it was time to get rid of many of them. Somehow, during that process, I found myself buying more books to sell... Somewhere in 'the plan' I lost the plot, but am not unhappy with the outcome. I have come to realise that it is the discovery of the book and its context, provenance sometimes, that can be as important as the content. Sometime in the near future I hope to be publishing my own books of recipes for chestnuts and freshwater fish, and who knows, maybe there might be another 'book hound' whose eyes light up sometime in the distant future as s/he picks up a battered copy of my 'Now cook me the eel', or 'The Castanhurst CookBook'...