The sign is yellow, hand-lettered and slightly crooked. Under it, books lie spine-up and spine-down in the same box: a road atlas, two cookery books, a paperback with a cracked spine and a name written inside the cover.
One price, many reasons
A single price changes how people browse. Nobody weighs a book against its cost. They pick by the cover, the first line, or the name inside.
At a pound, a book is bought for a sentence.
The stallholder says the best sellers are the ones with notes in the margins. Buyers like knowing that someone read them first.