Perth Voice Interactive

STRANGE, rare and antiquarian tomes will be sold to help buy books for the kids of South Sudan for UNESCO’s World Book Day.

Perth bookseller Robert Muir is opening his shop Muir Books to host nine other rare booksellers like Diabolik, Mainly Books and Penny Bannister who’ll be bringing unusual items to sell off on the day like items of WA history and rare World War I material.

Along with part of the sales going to the charity, shoppers can purchase a symbolic book spine to help fill an empty bookcase, representing the books they’re buying for kids in South Sudan.

Last year the event organised by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers raised enough to buy 1930 books and 500 pens and paper.

It’s on at Mr Muir’s new joint (an adapted stables where he sleeps in the loft) at 17 Lindsay Street, Perth on April 23 (the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death) from 10am to 5pm.

by DAVID BELL