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Sci Fi Flea Market
Sep. 13th, 2014 04:51 pmToday was our second year with a table at the Friends of the Merril Collection Science-Fiction and Anime Flea Market. As always it was held at the Metro Reference Library.
We brought a rollaway suitcase full of paperbacks, and a poseable 18-inch Hal Jordan, Green Lantern doll with cloth costume and light-up ring. There were many people with brightly coloured hair and anime t-shirts. Also a baby in a tiny knitted Jayne Cobb hat. An old man at the table across from ours was talking up the collectability of his vintage paperbacks, in a plaintive yet extremely loud voice. I tried to assume he was hard of hearing; Andrew just kept muttering under his breath about how his books were overpriced for the venue and he wasn't even grading them correctly. There's no sniping like geek sniping.
He eventually got to gloat that we were selling more books than his rival, as we sold all but four of the paperbacks. He'd originally marked the Green Lantern doll at $80, but sold it at half-price to the young man who was selling manga and video games at the table next to ours with his wife who was dressed as Pikachu. I picked up a copy of Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk, and some costume jewelry which included a large felt brooch shaped like a donut with embroidered sprinkles:
I see the Toronto Library System now runs a small press for people who want to self-publish; and their Digital Hub includes a 3D printer. They had a glass case full of examples of things they'd printed on it. All in all, a very successful day out.
We brought a rollaway suitcase full of paperbacks, and a poseable 18-inch Hal Jordan, Green Lantern doll with cloth costume and light-up ring. There were many people with brightly coloured hair and anime t-shirts. Also a baby in a tiny knitted Jayne Cobb hat. An old man at the table across from ours was talking up the collectability of his vintage paperbacks, in a plaintive yet extremely loud voice. I tried to assume he was hard of hearing; Andrew just kept muttering under his breath about how his books were overpriced for the venue and he wasn't even grading them correctly. There's no sniping like geek sniping.
He eventually got to gloat that we were selling more books than his rival, as we sold all but four of the paperbacks. He'd originally marked the Green Lantern doll at $80, but sold it at half-price to the young man who was selling manga and video games at the table next to ours with his wife who was dressed as Pikachu. I picked up a copy of Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk, and some costume jewelry which included a large felt brooch shaped like a donut with embroidered sprinkles:
I see the Toronto Library System now runs a small press for people who want to self-publish; and their Digital Hub includes a 3D printer. They had a glass case full of examples of things they'd printed on it. All in all, a very successful day out.
