today's events include finding someone has added a "poisonous" book into stock and now I guess we have to do a whole staff meeting about why we cannot sell poisoned books to customers, and how a footnote is not considered to be taking sufficient precautions
— Henry Sotheran Ltd (@Sotherans) April 13, 2021
further investigations have revealed that georg thinks the binding "may" have been treated with something to "counter" the poison, and again I feel the need to make the point that this is a bookstore, not a dungeon for level 4 d&d characters
— Henry Sotheran Ltd (@Sotherans) April 13, 2021
apparently the binding has been impregnated with some kind of noxious antiquated DIY insecticide
— Henry Sotheran Ltd (@Sotherans) April 13, 2021
we have been back in the store for -two- days
to the people offering to buy the deadly book (who I can only assume have reached the stage of pandemic anxiety where this seems like a good idea) you are very generous, but we need to do some internal investigations on it before we can even think about it going back into stock
— Henry Sotheran Ltd (@Sotherans) April 13, 2021