A rare first edition of Charles Dickens’ classic tale ‘A Christmas Carol’ has netted a Stirling charity shop more than £3000.
The book, published in 1843, had been among a clutch of Victorian fiction handed in to Oxfam Books and Music in Murray Place It went up for auction at Lyon and Turnbull in Edinburgh last Wednesday.
The festive ghost story involving the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge has become a much-loved and celebrated tale appreciated by all generations.
