One. Hi, everybody. This is Gats Hot for the Sat Truth. I've had many, many, many illustrious guests,

but few have engendered as much excitement as this next gentleman because I think we are both

geeks in our disposition. We both love books. Tom Ailing is a antiquarian bookseller. Welcome to the show, Tom.

Thank you very much for having me, Dr. Sadd. It's a pleasure to be here.

Thank you. And please feel free to call me God if you'd like, although I appreciate the

proper etiquette, which we'd expect nothing less of a properly educated Brit. Okay, so I thought

what we do is start with just your journey, right?

I mean, you look pretty young. How does a young chap such as yourself become this glorious

antiquarian bookseller? Well, that's very generous of you to put it that way.

The sort of big moment for me, I was very

fortunate, happened when I was quite young. I was 10 years old and one of my favorite authors

came to visit our school to talk to us. And then afterwards in the school library, she agreed to do a book signing. So I had

very eagerly brought along a great pile of books for her to sign. And for me, like for everyone

growing up, books are just vessels for stories. They are texts. And the most part what we get out of them are the stories that they tell us. And so I hadn't noticed that in my pile of books, six of them were paperbacks and one of them was a hardback, for example. And she very patiently went through my pile of books signing them for me. And she got

to the final one, the hardback on the bottom. And she said, hey, this one's a first edition. And

I'd never heard that word before. How old were you? Something about the cadence of it sounded

very special to me. How old were you at that point? Sorry to interrupt.

I was 10.

Okay. Go on. Sorry, you're interrupted.

And then the next thing she said was incredible.

She said, because it's a first edition, there's a mistake in it that I need to correct for you. So she signed the book for me and scribed it in Latin, of course.

And then she turned towards the end of the book and with her pen corrected this typo and

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